FromLatin simile ( “ comparison, likeness, parallel ” ) (first attested 1393), originally fromsimile similis ( “ like, similar, resembling ” ) . CompareEnglish similar
Examples (figure of speech) Her eyes were like stars.
simile (countable anduncountable plural similes or similia
Afigure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g.like oras .Antonym: dissimile Hypernym: figure of speech Coordinate terms: ( when the comparison is implicit ) metaphor analogy 1826 A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours , volume33 :He made asimile 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[ …]
1925 Countee Cullen ,Fruit of the Flower :My father is a quiet man / With sober, steady ways; / Forsimile , a folded fan; / His nights are like his days.
Similarity orresemblance to something else;likeness ,similitude .Somethingsimilar that's not aclone . figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another
Arabic:تَشْبِيه m ( tašbīh ) Azerbaijani:təşbeh Belarusian:параўна́нне n ( parawnánnje ) Bulgarian:сравне́ние (bg) n ( sravnénie ) Catalan:símil m Chinese:Mandarin:直喻 ( zhíyù ) ,明喻 ( míngyù ) ,譬喻 (zh) ( pìyù ) ,比喻 (zh) ( bǐyù ) Czech:přirovnání (cs) n Danish:sammenligning c lignelse c Dutch:vergelijking (nl) f Finnish:vertaus (fi) French:comparaison (fr) f Georgian:შედარება ( šedareba ) German:Vergleich (de) m Gleichnis (de) n Gothic:𐌲𐌰𐌾𐌿𐌺𐍉 f ( gajukō ) Greek:παρομοίωση (el) f ( paromoíosi ) Hebrew:דִּמּוּי (he) m ( dimmúy ) Hungarian:hasonlat (hu) Icelandic:líking (is) f samlíking f viðlíking f Italian:similitudine (it) f Japanese:直喩 (ja) ( ちょくゆ, chokuyu ) ,比喩 (ja) ( ひゆ, hiyu ) ,シミレ ( shimire ) Korean:직유(直喻) ( jigyu ) ,시밀레 ( simille ) Macedonian:споредба f ( sporedba ) Malayalam:ഉപമ (ml) ( upama ) Maori:kupu whakarite Norwegian:Bokmål:simile (no) m Persian:تشبیه (fa) ( tašbih ) Polish:porównanie (pl) n Portuguese:símile m Romanian:comparație (ro) f Russian:сравне́ние (ru) n ( sravnénije ) Sanskrit:उपमा (sa) f ( upamā ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:поређење n поредба f успоредба f Roman:poređenje n poredba (sh) f usporedba (sh) f Slovak:prirovnanie n Slovene:primera (sl) f Spanish:símil (es) m Swahili:tashbihi (sw) Swedish:liknelse (sv) c Tamil:உவமை (ta) ( uvamai ) Thai:อุปมา (th) ( ùp-bpà-maa ) Turkish:teşbih (tr) Ukrainian:порі́вняння n ( porívnjannja ) Uzbek:tashbih (uz) Vietnamese:so sánh (vi) Welsh:cymhariaeth f
IPA (key ) : /siˈmile/ Rhymes:-ile Hyphenation: si‧mi‧le simile
similarly simile (comparative plus similesuperlative le plus simile
similar FromLatin similis
simile m or f by sense plural simili
similar Non è moltosimile . It is not verysimilar . suchÈ possibile una cosasimile ? Issuch a thing possible? simile
nominative / accusative / vocative neuter singular ofsimilis “simile Charlton T. Lewis (1891 ),An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers Unadapted borrowing fromItalian simile
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