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sim·i·le    Audio Help   [sim-uh-lee] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.” Compare metaphor.
2.an instance of such a figure of speech or a use of words exemplifying it.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < L: image, likeness, comparison, n. use of neut. of similis similar]
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sim·i·le    Audio Help   (sĭm'ə-lē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in "How like the winter hath my absence been" or "So are you to my thoughts as food to life" (Shakespeare).


[Middle English, from Latin, likeness, comparison, from neuter of similis, like; see similar.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
simile 
1393, from L. simile "a like thing," neuter of similis "like" (see similar). "A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject." [Johnson].

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simile

noun
a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') 

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simile [ˈsiməli] noun
a form of expression using `like' or `as', in which one thing is compared to another which it only resembles in one or a small number of ways
Example: `Her hair was like silk' is a simile.
Arabic: تَشْبيه
Chinese (Simplified): 明喻
Chinese (Traditional): 明喻
Czech: přirovnání
Danish: lignelse
Dutch: vergelijking
Estonian: võrdlus
Finnish: vertaus
French: comparaison
German: der Vergleich
Greek: παρομοίωση (γραμμ.)
Hungarian: hasonlat
Icelandic: (sam)líking
Indonesian: kiasan
Italian: similitudine
Japanese: 直喩
Korean: 직유(直喩)
Latvian: salīdzinājums
Lithuanian: palyginimas
Norwegian: sammenlikning
Polish: porównanie
Portuguese (Brazil): símile
Portuguese (Portugal): símile
Romanian: comparaţie
Russian: сравнение
Slovak: prirovnanie
Slovenian: prispodoba
Spanish: símil
Swedish: liknelse
Turkish: benzetme, teşbih
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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
simile [(sim-uh-lee)]

A common figure of speech that explicitly compares two things usually considered different. Most similes are introduced by like or as: “The realization hit me like a bucket of cold water.” (Compare metaphor.)

Note: Some similes, such as “sleeping like a log,” have become clichés.

[Chapter:] Conventions of Written English


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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Simile

Fac*sim"i*le\, n.; pl. Facsimiles (-l?z). [L. fac simile make like; or an abbreviation of factum simile made like; facere to make + similes like. See Fact, and Simile.] A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.

Facsimile telegraph, a telegraphic apparatus reproducing messages in autograph.
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