figurative language

[ fig-yer-uh-tiv lang-gwij ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1685–95

To use your figurative language, when this wormeaten monarchy is broken, what will come out of the ruins?

Figurative language employs words with meanings not strictly literal, but varying from their ordinary definitions.

As the ranchers put it, in the figurative language of their calling, “the hull blame state was burnt to a cinder.”

"They will yet find the Huron a singing-bird," said Duncan, endeavoring to adopt the figurative language of the natives.

Why should one art be contemptuous of the figurative language of another?

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