Definitions for trope
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. trope, figure of speech, figure, imagenoun

   language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tropenoun

   Something recurring across a genre or type of literature, such as the 'mad scientist' of horror movies or 'once upon a time' as an introduction to fairy tales. Similar to archetype and cliché but not necessarily pejorative.

2. tropenoun

   A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.

3. tropenoun

   A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.

4. tropenoun

   A phrase or verse added to the mass when sung by a choir.

5. tropenoun

   A cantillation.

6. tropeverb

   To use, or embellish something with a trope.

7. Etymology: From tropus, from τρόπος.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tropenoun

   A change of a word from its original signification; as, the clouds foretel rain for foreshew.

   Etymology: τϱόπος; trope, Fr. tropus, Lat.

   For rhetorick he could not ope
   His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Hudibras.

   If this licence be included in a single word, it admits of tropes; if in a sentence, of figures. Dryden.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trope

   A trope is a common or recurrent theme, motif, or stylistic device in literature, art, or film. It is a figure of speech or a representative example used for expressive effect, often to convey an idea or concept in a simplified or symbolic form.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tropenoun

   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. Tropenoun

   the word or expression so used

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Trope

   A literary trope is the use of figurative language. For example, the sitting United States administration might be referred to as "Washington". Since the 1970s, the word has also come to mean a commonly recurring literary device, motif, or cliché. The term trope had its first known use in English during 1533 and it derives from the Greek τρόπος, "turn, direction, way", derived from the verb τρέπειν, "to turn, to direct, to alter, to change".

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trope

   trōp, n. (rhet.) a word or expression changed from its proper sense for emphasis, a figure of speech—-metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony: a short cadence peculiar to Gregorian melodies—also Differentia and Distinctio: formerly, a phrase occasionally interpolated in different parts of the mass: (geom.) the reciprocal of a node.—adj. Trō′pical, figurative.—adv. Trō′pically.—n. Trō′pist, one who uses tropes or who explains Scripture by them.—adjs. Trōpolog′ic, -al, expressed or varied by tropes or figures.—adv. Trōpolog′ically.—v.t. Tropol′ogise, to use as a trope.—n. Trōpol′ogy, a tropical or figurative mode of speech: a treatise on tropes: that interpretation of Scripture which reads moral meanings into any and every passage. [Fr.,—L. tropus—Gr. tropos—trepein, to turn.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TROPE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Trope is ranked #124548 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Trope surname appeared 138 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Trope.
   
   95.6% or 132 total occurrences were White.

Anagrams for trope »

1. repot

2. tepor

3. toper

4. prote

5. poter

How to pronounce trope?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say trope in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of trope in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of trope in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of trope in a Sentence

1. Di Nonno:

   They were much less often depicted as funny, they were more in that model minority [ trope ] of being hard working and rigid and smart.

2. Professor Kenyon Wilson:

   It an academic trope that no one reads the syllabus, it's analogous to the terms and conditions when you're installing software, everyone clicks that they've read it when no one ever does.

3. Karen Finney:

   This isn't about whining that we're not being treated fairly, although I would argue these women are not, we know that it's an old trope to say that you can't trust an ambitious woman.

4. Some Israelis:

   It also includes an ugly anti-Semitic trope of Jewish 'greed'.

5. Carol Anderson:

   What I saw was the defense preying on White fears, the' long, dirty toenails' -- that is an old trope of the' Black Beast.' That is the stuff coming out of Reconstruction and Jim Crow.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=trope
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Trope
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=trope
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trope
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=trope
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=trope
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html