metaphor
US: /ˈmɛtəfɔɹ/
UK: /mˈɛtəfˌɔː/
UK: /mˈɛtəfˌɔː/
English Vietnamese dictionary
metaphor /'metəfɔ/
- danh từ
- (văn học) phép ẩn dụ
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
[C, U] a word or phrase used in an imaginative way to describe sb/sth else, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful, for example She has a heart of stone; the use of such words and phrases: a game of football used as a metaphor for the competitive struggle of life + The writer's striking use of metaphor.
Compare: SIMILE
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
figure (of speech), allusion, analogy, analogue, reference, image, trope, symbol; simile, parabole; metonymy, symbolism, imagery:
When she said she was blue, she was using 'blue' as a metaphor. Poetry is rife with metaphor.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
appropriate, apt, striking | mixed
VERB + METAPHOR
use
He uses the metaphor of fire to represent hatred.
METAPHOR + VERB
describe sth, represent sth
PREP.
~ for
‘This vale of tears’ is a metaphor for the human condition.
| ~ of
the metaphor of life as a journey
Concise English dictionary
metaphors'metəfɔr /'metəfə,'metəfɔː
noun
+a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
