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English noun: metaphor

1. metaphor (communication) 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


Broader (hypernym)figure, figure of speech, image, trope


Narrower (hyponym)dead metaphor, frozen metaphor, mixed metaphor, synesthetic metaphor









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