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sim·i·le       (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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