| NOUN | communication | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
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| Sounds | meh'tahfaor | |
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| Rhymes | abhor ... Zocor: 121 rhymes with aor... | |
| Meaning | A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity. | |
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| Narrower | dead metaphor, frozen metaphor | A metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning / meaning of the expression (e.g., 'he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word 'snake') |
| mixed metaphor | A combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect | |
| synesthetic metaphor | A metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities | |
| Broader | trope, figure of speech, figure, image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
| Spanish | metáfora, metáforo | |
| Catalan | metàfora | |
| Adjectives | metaphorical, metaphoric | expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another |
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