Usually means: Comparison using "like" or "as".
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. simile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. simile: Merriam-Webster
  3. simile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. simile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. simile: Collins English Dictionary
  6. simile: Vocabulary.com
  7. Simile, simile: Wordnik
  8. simile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. simile: Wiktionary
  10. simile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. simile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. simile: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. simile: Dictionary.com
  14. simile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SIMILE, Simile (computer virus), Simile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Simile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. simile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. simile: Rhymezone
  19. Simile, simile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. simile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. simile: FreeDictionary.org
  22. simile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. simile: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. simile: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. simile: Online Etymology Dictionary

Art (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. simile: Global Glossary
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  3. Simile: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  4. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  5. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Simile: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  8. SIMILE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. simile: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. simile: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (simile)

▸ noun:  A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.
▸ noun:  Similarity or resemblance to something else; likeness, similitude.
▸ noun:  Something similar that's not a clone.

Similar:
simily, comparison, resemblance, similitude, like, analogy, metaphor, likening, compare, parabole, more...

Opposite:
metaphor, metonymy

Types:
like, as, as though, as if, more...

Phrases:
epic simile, Homeric simile, fac simile, part of a simplicity simile, simile for a deep sleeper, more...

Adjectives:
fac, beautiful, famous, homeric, epic, extended, apt, homely, striking, better, exact

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Similar:
simily, comparison, resemblance, similitude, like, analogy, metaphor, likening, compare, parabole, more...

Opposite:
metaphor, metonymy

Types:
like, as, as though, as if, more...

Phrases:
epic simile, Homeric simile, fac simile, part of a simplicity simile, simile for a deep sleeper, opposite of simile, more...

Adjectives:
fac, beautiful, famous, homeric, epic, extended, apt, homely, striking, better, exact

Colors:
    blue,     green,     red,     yellow,     purple, more...



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