English to Binisaya - Cebuano Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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Word:

 

Word - rootword - affixes
kaamgiran - amgid - d>r~ka-~-an~
ka.am.gi.ran. - 4 syllables

d>r = amgir
ka- = kaamgir
-an = kaamgiran
kaamgiran

kaamgiran : metaphor (n.)
amgid [am.gid.] : similar (adj.)

Derivatives of amgid


Glosses:
metaphor
n. (communication)1. metaphora figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity.
~ figure of speech, trope, image, figurelanguage used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
~ dead metaphor, frozen metaphora metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake').
~ mixed metaphora combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect.
~ synesthetic metaphora metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities.