(technical) a word or phrase that is used in a way that is different from its usual meaning in order to create a particular mental image or effect. METAPHORS and SIMILES are tropes.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for trope is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is trope a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, trope is tagged as noun.
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Yes — trope appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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