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HYPERBOLE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does hyperbole mean?

• HYPERBOLE (noun)
The noun HYPERBOLE has 1 sense:

1. extravagant exaggeration

Familiarity information: HYPERBOLE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HYPERBOLE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Extravagant exaggeration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

exaggeration; hyperbole

Hypernyms ("hyperbole" is a kind of...):

figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)

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