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Word: Trope
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Old English Old English tropes (genitive), via Latin from Greek tropos ‘turn, way, trope’, from trepein ‘to turn’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
trəʊp
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression
Short Definition:figurative or metaphorical use of word or expression
Examples:- both clothes and illness became tropes for new attitudes toward the self
- perhaps it is a mistake to use tropes and parallels in this eminently unpoetic age
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