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
Inggeris metaphor 3 ( ⊳ ⊳ )
Bahasa Indonesia kiasan , metafora , ibarat
Italian metafora , traslato , tropo
Japanese メタファー , 暗喩 , 暗ゆ , メタファ , 隠喩
Bahasa Malaysia kiasan , metafora , ibarat
Definitions
Inggeris
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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