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metaphors
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metaphorsnoun
Plural form of metaphor.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of metaphors in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of metaphors in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of metaphors in a Sentence
Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002):
Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.
The war in some ways was really a war for family, the public culture around the war was draped in familial metaphors, a war to defend women and children from deprivation.
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", ch. 12:
...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.
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- מטאפורותHebrew
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