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metaphor

 
Noun metaphor has 1 sense
  1. metaphor - 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
    --1 is a kind of
    trope, figure of speech, figure, image
    --1 has particulars:
     dead metaphor, frozen metaphor; mixed metaphor; synesthetic metaphor
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