Definition of Siile
Sim"i*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.
Sim"i*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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another using like or as.
*"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" — Irina Dunn, 1970
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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