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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
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being:
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
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.
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- מטאפורותHebrew
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