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Definition of Simile
1. Noun. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as').
Definition of Simile
1. n. 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.
Definition of Simile
1. Noun. A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using ''like'' or ''as''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Simile
1. a figure of speech [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Simile
Literary usage of Simile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The BookmanPopular culture Periodicals Popular culture P (1899)
"320 Ethel Reed's First Poster 543 Ebers, George 15 Fac-simile of Title-page
of "Twice Told Tales" 40 Fac-simile of Title-page of "Legends of New Fac-simile ..."
2. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1887)
"William Bentley 115 Fac-simile of heading of the Boston Gazette, 1770 j 16 Portrait
of Joseph Dennie 117 Fac-simile of heading of the Independent Gazetteer, ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"I on EN try'd in vain to find A simile for woman-kind, A simile I mean to fit 'em,
In every circumstance to hit 'em. ..."
4. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1834)
"EXPLANATION OF THE FAC-simile. THE manuscripts of Pope's version of the Iliad
and Odyssey ... What appears on this Fac simile I have printed, to assist its ..."
5. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1858)
"EXPLANATION OF THE FAC-simile. THE manuscripts of Pope's version of the Iliad
and Odyssey ... What appears on this Fac-simile I have printed, to assist its ..."
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