2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Trope  \Trope\,  n.  [L.  tropus,  Gr  ?,  fr  ?  to  turn.  See 
  {Torture},  and  cf  {Trophy},  {Tropic},  {Troubadour}, 
  {Trover}.]  (Rhet.) 
  a  The  use  of  a  word  or  expression  in  a  different  sense  from 
  that  which  properly  belongs  to  it  the  use  of  a  word  or 
  expression  as  changed  from  the  original  signification  to 
  another,  for  the  sake  of  giving  life  or  emphasis  to  an 
  idea;  a  figure  of  speech. 
  b  The  word  or  expression  so  used 
 
  In  his  frequent,  long,  and  tedious  speeches,  it  has 
  been  said  that  a  trope  never  passed  his  lips. 
  --Bancroft. 
 
  Note:  Tropes  are  chiefly  of  four  kinds:  metaphor,  metonymy, 
  synecdoche,  and  irony.  Some  authors  make  figures  the 
  genus,  of  which  trope  is  a  species;  others  make  them 
  different  things  defining  trope  to  be  a  change  of 
  sense  and  figure  to  be  any  ornament,  except  what 
  becomes  so  by  such  change. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  trope 
  n  :  language  used  in  a  figurative  or  nonliteral  sense  [syn:  {figure 
  of  speech},  {figure},  {image}] 

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