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1. (n.) trope
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
2. trope
an instance of this.
3. trope
a phrase, sentence, or verse formerly interpolated in a liturgical text to amplify or embellish.
Etymology: (1525–35; < L tropus figure in rhetoric < Gk trópos turn, turn or figure of speech, akin to trépein to turn)
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1. (noun) trope, figure of speech, figure, image
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
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1. (noun) trope
the use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech
2. (noun) trope
the word or expression so used
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