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simile |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Simile \Simi"*le\, n.; pl {Similes}. [L., from similis. See {Similar}.] (Rhet.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. A good swift simile, but something currish. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: simile n : a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
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