( n. )
A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
( n. )
A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012