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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, General Australian) IPA: /ˈsɪməli/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈsəməli/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈsɪməle/, /-lɪ/, /-li/

名詞

simile (countable and uncountable, plural similes or similia)

1. (literary device) A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.

   Antonym: dissimile

   Hypernym: figure of speech

   Coordinate terms: (when the comparison is implicit) metaphor, analogy

   • 1826, Thomas Bayly Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours, volume 33:

     He made a simile of George the third to Nebuchadnezzar, and of the prince regent to Belshazzar, and insisted that the prince represented the latter in not paying much attention to what had happened to kings […]

   • 1887, George Saintsbury, “Early Elizabethan prose”, in A History of Elizabethan Literature‎:

     The second was a fancy, which amounts to a mania, for similes, strung together in endless lists, and derived as a rule from animals, vegetables, or minerals, especially from the Fauna and Flora of fancy.

   • 1905, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter 2, in Where Angels Fear to Tread, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 57:

     What follows should be prefaced with some simile—the simile of a powder-mine, a thunderbolt, an earthquake—for it blew Philip up in the air and flattened him on the ground and swallowed him up in the depths.

   • 1925, Countee Cullen, Fruit of the Flower:

     My father is a quiet man / With sober, steady ways; / For simile, a folded fan; / His nights are like his days.

2. Similarity or resemblance to something else; likeness, similitude.
3. Something similar that's not a clone.

派生語

関連する語

参考

• metaphor
• Category:English similes
• Appendix:English similes

Further reading

• simile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• mislie, smilie

参照

• “simile”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers