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SIMILE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("simile" is a kind of...):
figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
Context examples:
Missis Gummidge has worked like a—I doen't know what Missis Gummidge an't worked like, said Mr. Peggotty, looking at her, at a loss for a sufficiently approving simile.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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