Meanings (ES + gloss)
símil
A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.
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 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 swal…
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