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SIMILE

Dictionary entry overview: What does simile mean?

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

1. a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')

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

Dictionary entry details

• SIMILE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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

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