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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
trope n 1: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [syn: trope, figure of speech, figure, image] | ||
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Trope \Trope\, n. [L. tropus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn. See Torture, and cf. Trophy, Tropic, Troubadour, Trover.] (Rhet.) (a) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech. (b) The word or expression so used. [1913 Webster] In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope never passed his lips. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster] Note: Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figures the genus, of which trope is a species; others make them different things, defining trope to be a change of sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what becomes so by such change. [1913 Webster] | ||
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