Associations to the word «Metaphor»
Noun
- Motif
- Alienation
- Kuhn
- Repetition
- Rebirth
- Sarcasm
- Tenor
- Atonement
- Folder
- Creativity
- Interpretation
- Understanding
- Embodiment
- Poetry
- Modernity
- Mysticism
- Linguist
- Freud
- Visualization
- Utterance
- Blindness
- Substitution
- Realism
- Employ
- Lyric
- Sexuality
- Cyborg
- Shamanism
- Ovid
- Concept
- Coleridge
- Clarity
- Reality
- Riddle
- Context
- Beloved
- Comparison
- Similarity
- Interface
- Compare
- Reasoning
- Monologue
- Lan
- Spirituality
- Sutra
- Pathos
- Cicero
- Narrator
- Stanza
- Orator
- Alchemy
- Descartes
- Shakespeare
- Poem
- Taboo
- Gibbs
- Critique
- Psychoanalysis
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
METAPHOR, noun. (uncountable) (figure of speech) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn’t, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, but in the case of English without the words like or as, which would imply a simile.
METAPHOR, noun. (countable) (rhetoric) The word or phrase used in this way. An implied comparison.
METAPHOR, noun. (countable) (GUI) The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.
Dictionary definition
METAPHOR, noun. 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.
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.