Thesaurus: simile
A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
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Definitions
- n. A word or word/phrase">phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
- n. a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with ‘like’ or ‘as’)
- A word or word/phrase">phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. A good swift simile, but something currish. Shak.
- A word or word/phrase">phrase by which anything is likened, in one or moreof its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical orimaginative comparison.A good swift simile, but something currish. Shak.
- n:100 n. a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')