Usually means: Exaggerated comparison in literary device.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word conceit:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. conceit: Merriam-Webster
  2. conceit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. conceit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. conceit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. conceit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Conceit, conceit: Wordnik
  7. conceit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. conceit: Wiktionary
  9. conceit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. conceit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. conceit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Conceit, conceit: Dictionary.com
  13. conceit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. conceit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Conceit (film), Conceit (rapper), Conceit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Conceit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. conceit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. conceit: Rhymezone
  19. conceit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. conceit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. conceit: FreeDictionary.org
  22. conceit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. conceit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. conceit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Conceit: Literary Terms
  4. CONCEIT: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conceit: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conceit: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conceit: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.
noun:  The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
noun:  Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
noun:  (obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
noun:  (now rare, dialectal) Esteem, favourable opinion.
noun:  (countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
noun:  (countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
noun:  (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
noun:  Design; pattern.
verb:  (obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To conceive.

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