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Simile

//ˈsɪməli// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as. countable, uncountable

    "He made a simile of George the third to Nebuchadnezzar, and of the prince regent to Belshazzar, and insisted that the prince represented the latter in not paying much attention to what had happened to kings […]"

  2. 2
    a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with ‘like’ or ‘as’) wordnet
  3. 3
    Similarity or resemblance to something else; likeness, similitude. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    Something similar that's not a clone. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Latin simile (“comparison, likeness, parallel”) (first attested 1393), originally from simile, neuter form of similis (“like, similar, resembling”). Compare English similar.

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