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Noun Concept

Categories: Metaphors, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Citizendium, Figures of speech, Tropes by type, Metaphor

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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 WordNet 3.0

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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 WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. Wikipedia

Figure of speech in which one thing is asserted to be another when it is in fact not so, based on properties of the latter that apply to the former, pointing to similarity Wikidata

A figure of speech in which an expression is used which refers to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a likeness or comparison. OmegaWiki

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