What is another word for figure of speech?
Synonyms for figure of speech
fig·ure of speech
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Wiktionary
figure of speechnoun
Synonyms:
turn of phrasefigure of speechnoun
A word or phrase that departs from straightforward, literal language.
Synonyms:
turn of phrase
Princeton's WordNet
trope, figure of speech, figure, imagenoun
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Synonyms:
figure, flesh, range, frame, shape, image, chassis, physical body, trope, epitome, soma, look-alike, human body, effigy, range of a function, picture, form, mental image, physique, design, fig, number, double, digit, persona, pattern, bod, name, paradigm, simulacrum, icon, prototype, public figure, anatomy, ikon, material body, build
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#108 | name | |
#143 | number | |
#245 | design | |
#368 | form | |
#376 | image | |
#605 | range | |
#631 | picture | |
#958 | figure | |
#1046 | double | |
#1048 | build | |
#1784 | frame | |
#2357 | pattern | |
#2368 | icon | |
#3012 | shape | |
#3790 | fig | |
#7852 | anatomy | |
#7929 | soma | |
#8029 | digit | |
#8205 | flesh | |
#8963 | chassis | |
#9140 | prototype | |
#11447 | paradigm | |
#19134 | bod | |
#21944 | persona | |
#27795 | physique | |
#41715 | epitome | |
#44018 | ikon | |
#70850 | effigy | |
#94515 | trope | |
#136417 | simulacrum |
How to use figure of speech in a sentence?
I agree with the pope as far as being a true Christian, you accept everybody, i happen to like Trump but I don't know if he's literally about building walls or that's just a figure of speech.
You see, in California we are focusing on bridges, not walls, and that’s more than just a figure of speech.
He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.
They claimed I was calling for violence against transgenders, obviously it is not true. It was a figure of speech. It was meant to be humorous and it was humorous to the audience.
Translations for figure of speech
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- تشبيهArabic
- řečnická figuraCzech
- talemådeDanish
- RedewendungGerman
- figura retóricaSpanish
- kielikuvaFinnish
- figure de style, figure de rhétoriqueFrench
- szófordulatHungarian
- figura retoricaItalian
- 修辞, 文彩, 言葉のあや, あやJapanese
- стилска фигураMacedonian
- stijlfiguur, manier van spreken, wijze van sprekenDutch
- figura de linguagemPortuguese
- фигура речи, риторическая фигураRussian
- talesättSwedish
- பேச்சு எண்ணிக்கைTamil
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