metaphors
noun#21,128
Translations
- メタファーメタファー
- メタフォールメタフォール
- 暗喩あんゆ
- 隠喩いんゆ
English definition
- 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
Examples
- Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
- Not only Orientals love metaphors and similes.