metaphor
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
Types & categories
- trope hypernym
- dead metaphor hyponym
- mixed metaphor hyponym
- synesthetic metaphor hyponym
Related & opposite
- metaphorical derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | metaphorical |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | trope |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dead metaphor |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mixed metaphor |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | synesthetic metaphor |