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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɪməli/Part of speech nounSorted eiilmsStarts with SEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with ‘like’ or ‘as’)

Word origin

From Latin simile (“comparison, likeness, parallel”) (first attested 1393), originally from simile, neuter form of similis (“like, similar, resembling”). Compare English similar.

Used in a sentence

  • 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 […]
  • 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.
  • 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.

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