simile
See also: símile
English
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[edit]From Latin simile (“comparison, likeness, parallel”) (first attested 1393), originally from simile, neuter form of similis (“like, similar, resembling”). Compare English similar.
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simile (countable and uncountable, plural similes or similia)
- A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.
- Antonym: dissimile
- Hypernym: figure of speech
- Coordinate term: (when the comparison is implicit) metaphor
- 1826, Thomas Bayly Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours, volume 33:
- He made a simile of George the third to Nebuchadnezzar, and of the prince regent to Belshazzar, and insisted that the prince represented the latter in not paying much attention to what had happened to kings […]
- 1905, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter 2, in Where Angels Fear to Tread, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 57:
- What follows should be prefaced with some simile—the simile of a powder-mine, a thunderbolt, an earthquake—for it blew Philip up in the air and flattened him on the ground and swallowed him up in the depths.
- 1925, Countee Cullen, Fruit of the Flower:
- My father is a quiet man / With sober, steady ways; / For simile, a folded fan; / His nights are like his days.
- Similarity or resemblance to something else; likeness, similitude.
- Something similar that's not a clone.
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[edit]figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another
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[edit]simile
Interlingua
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[edit]simile (comparative plus simile, superlative le plus simile)
Italian
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[edit]simile (plural simili)
- similar
- Non è molto simile.
- It is not very similar.
- such
- È possibile una cosa simile?
- Is such a thing possible?
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[edit]Latin
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[edit]simile
References
[edit]- “simile”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Romanian
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[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Italian simile.
Adverb
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