HOW TO PRONOUNCE
simile
/ˈsɪməli/
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What does simile mean?
noun
- A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.
- Similarity or resemblance to something else; likeness, similitude.
- Something similar that's not a clone.
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To repeat a simile which has been used elsewhere, it is the humble telephone bell which heralds the all-important message.
How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace, a simile of sorrow?
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But though we describe the society of Sarawak as being now a completed structure, the simile is inadequate and might mislead.
Terry, at his worst, in a black fury for which, as a man, I must have some sympathy, preferred the ant simile.
This simile is particularly appropriate as all aviators are in reality sailors, and much more daring ones than those who course the seas.