simile

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Simile \Sim"i*le\, n.; pl. Similes. [L., from similis. See Similar.] (Rhet.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. [1913 Webster]

A good swift simile, but something currish. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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