Definitions for: Simile

[n] a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

See Also: figure, figure of speech, image, trope

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