metaphors
Meaning of metaphors
plural noun
- a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
when we speak of gene maps and gene mapping, we use a cartographic metaphor
her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor
late 15th century: from French métaphore, via Latin from Greek metaphora, from metapherein ‘to transfer’.
Information about metaphors
- It is a name.
- The singular form of metaphors is: metaphor.
- Languages in which metaphors is used:
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Hyphenation of metaphors
metaphors
- It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
- metaphors is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
metaphors synonyms
Meaning a simile or metaphor:
Meaning a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression:
Meaning a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one:
Meaning a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels:
Meaning a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification:
Meaning a consideration or estimate of the similarities or dissimilarities between two things or people:
Meaning a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract:
Meaning a heraldic device or symbolic object as a distinctive badge of a nation, organization, or family:
Meaning an ingenious or fanciful comparison or metaphor:
Words that rhyme with metaphors
hors, Cahors, abhors, anchors, coanchors, disanchors, ichors, isochors, parachors, unanchors, dehors, chikhors, khors, markhors, Senhors, senhors, anaphors, biophors, camphors, canephors, ephors, iodophors, phosphors, authors, coauthors, nonauthors, porthors
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