FromLatinsimile(“comparison, likeness, parallel”) (first attested 1393), originally fromsimile, neuter form ofsimilis(“like, similar, resembling”). CompareEnglishsimilar.
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- Her eyes were like stars.
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simile (countable anduncountable,pluralsimilesorsimilia)
- Afigure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g.like oras.
- Antonym:dissimile
- Hypernym:figure of speech
- Coordinate term:(when the comparison is implicit)metaphor
1826, Thomas Bayly Howell,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(paraŭnánnje)
- 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
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- IPA(key): /siˈmile/
- Rhymes:-ile
- Hyphenation: si‧mi‧le
simile
- similarly
simile (comparativeplus simile,superlativeleplus simile)
- similar
FromLatinsimilis.
simile (pluralsimili)
- similar
Non è moltosimile.- It is not verysimilar.
- such
È possibile una cosasimile?- Issuch a thing possible?
simile
- nominative/accusative/vocativeneutersingular ofsimilis
- “simile”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Unadapted borrowing fromItaliansimile.
simile
- simile
