07106800-n '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';
 
Chinese (simplified) 隐喻 , 暗喻 , 比喻
English metaphor 3 ( ⊳ ⊳ )
Indonesian kiasan , metafora , ibarat
Italian metafora , traslato , tropo
Japanese メタファー , 暗喩 , 暗ゆ , メタファ , 隠喩
Malaysian kiasan , metafora , ibarat
Definitions
English
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
Japanese
ものを文字どおりに示すのではなく類似点をあげて連想させる比喩表現
Relations
Hyponym: dead_metaphor mixed_metaphor synesthetic_metaphor
Hypernym: trope
Semantic Field: communicationn
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Langs:
Seen Lemmas: serong; painless;
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