SIMILE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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)

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 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)