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Similes

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Similes"

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Word	Definition
facnoun	(colloquial) A faculty within a university.
metaphorsnoun	(uncountable, rhetoric) The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word, etc., that is used.
prosenoun	Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
poesynoun	The art or composition of poetry.
wordplaynoun	A humorous play on words; such plays on words collectively.
apercusnoun	Alternative spelling of aperçu. [A clever insight.]
punsnoun	A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
adverbsnoun	(grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.
synonymsnoun	(semantics) A term (word or phrase) which is synonymous with others.
epigramsnoun	Twenty-nine epigrams are attributed to Plato, mostly in the Greek Anthology.
onomatopoeianoun	(countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss".
nabokoviannoun	Of or pertaining to Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) or his writings, characterised by a lush descriptive style and intricate wordplay.
adjectivesnoun	(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
alliterationnoun	The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables.
etymologiesnoun	(uncountable, linguistics) The scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.
koansnoun	(Zen Buddhism) A story about a Zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable or parable, which has become an object of Zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the Zen student’s mind leading to satori.
analogiesnoun	A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
homonymsnoun	(semantics, strictly) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
homophonesnoun	"Homophones" is a word game in which a player creates a sentence or phrase containing a pair or larger set of homophones, substitutes another (usually nonsensical) pair of words for the homophone pair, then reads the newly created sentence out loud.
sestinanoun	(poetry) A highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet or envoy, for a total of thirty-nine lines.