[C,U] a word or phrase used in an imaginative way to describe sb/sth else, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful, for example She has a heart of stone; the use of such words and phrases:
a game of football used as a metaphor for the competitive struggle of life * The writer's striking use of metaphor.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for metaphor is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is metaphor a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, metaphor is tagged as noun.
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