metaphor
metaphor is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea. Abbott & Seeley. "All the world's a stage." Shak. Note: The statement, "that man is a fox," is a metaphor; but "that man is like a fox," is a simile, similitude, or comparison.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abuse
- accent
- adumbrate
- adumbration
- allegorical
- allegorize
- allegory
- alliteration
- alliterative
- allude
- allusion
- allusive
- altiloquence
- altiloquent
- ambiguity
- anagoge
- anagogical
- anagram
- analogy
- antiphrasis
- antithesis
- antithetical
- apologue
- application
- apply
- approximation
- archaic
- archaism
- argot
- artificial
- association
- assumed
- assumption
- babu
- barbarism
- bare
- belief
- black
- blue
- bombast
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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