Associations to the word «Simile»

Wiktionary

SIMILE, noun. A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as.

Dictionary definition

SIMILE, noun. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as').

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope