simile
About 1.18 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.
- noun Similarity or resemblance to something else; likeness, similitude.
- noun Something similar that's not a clone.
Similar words
fae foe fac afac autographs comparaison resemblance likeness metaphor analogy
Often followed by
of is in and to for or that which
Word family
similes simili
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