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Noun [English]

Audio: en-au-figure of speech.ogg Forms: figures of speech [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|figures of speech}} figure of speech (plural figures of speech)
  1. (rhetoric, stylistic) A word or phrase that intentionally deviates from ordinary language use to produce a rhetorical effect. Tags: rhetoric Categories (topical): Rhetoric, Figures of speech Hyponyms: figure of speech Translations (rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard): фігу́ра маўле́ння (fihúra maŭljénnja) [feminine] (Belarusian), řečnická figura [feminine] (Czech), stijlfiguur [masculine] (Dutch), kielikuva (Finnish), figure de style [feminine] (French), figure de rhétorique [feminine] (French), figura retórica [feminine] (Galician), Redefigur [feminine] (German), rhetorisches Stilmittel [neuter] (German), σχήμα λόγου (schíma lógou) [neuter] (Greek), figura retorica [feminine] (Italian), сти́лска фигу́ра (stílska figúra) [feminine] (Macedonian), bunga bahasa (Malay), kīpeha (Maori), figura de linguagem (Portuguese), figură de stil [feminine] (Romanian), фигу́ра ре́чи (figúra réči) [feminine] (Russian), ритори́ческая фигу́ра (ritoríčeskaja figúra) [feminine] (Russian), figura retórica [feminine] (Spanish), stilfigur [common-gender] (Swedish), фігу́ра мо́ви (fihúra móvy) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. (loosely) A turn of phrase that ought not to be taken literally, but rather as employed for convenience of expression only. Tags: broadly Categories (topical): Figures of speech Synonyms: façon de parler, figure of speech, turn of phrase Related terms: figurative, idiom, in a manner of speaking, metaphor, so to speak, trope, :Category:en:Figures of speech
    Sense id: en-figure_of_speech-en-noun-14HPKbXj Disambiguation of Figures of speech: 51 49 Categories (other): English terms with collocations, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 53 47 Hyponyms: adynaton, antithesis, apostrophe, epizeuxis, euphemism, hendiadys, hyperbole, laconism, meiosis, metaphor, metonym, oxymoron, paradiastole, parallelism, personification, pleonasm, ploce, prosopopeia, simile, synecdoche, trope

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      "source": "Thesaurus:figure of speech",
      "word": "personification"
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "fihúra maŭljénnja",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "фігу́ра маўле́ння"
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "řečnická figura"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "stijlfiguur"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "word": "kielikuva"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "figure de style"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "figure de rhétorique"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "figura retórica"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Redefigur"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "rhetorisches Stilmittel"
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "schíma lógou",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "σχήμα λόγου"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "figura retorica"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "stílska figúra",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сти́лска фигу́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "word": "bunga bahasa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "word": "kīpeha"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "word": "figura de linguagem"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "figură de stil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "figúra réči",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фигу́ра ре́чи"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ritoríčeskaja figúra",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "ритори́ческая фигу́ра"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "figura retórica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "stilfigur"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "fihúra móvy",
      "sense": "rhetoric, stylistic: word or phrase that deviates from standard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фігу́ра мо́ви"
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