| Pronunciation: | | 'simulee
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[n] a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') |
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SIMILE is a 6 letter word that starts with S. |
| | See Also: | | figure, figure of speech, image, trope |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Simi"*le\, n.; pl. {Similes}. [L., from similis. See
{Similar}.] (Rhet.)
A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more
of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical
or imaginative comparison.
A good swift simile, but something currish. --Shak.
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