Usually means: Exaggeration to emphasize or evoke.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word hyperbole:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyperbole: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hyperbole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hyperbole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hyperbole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hyperbole: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hyperbole, hyperbole: Wordnik
  7. hyperbole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hyperbole: Wiktionary
  9. hyperbole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hyperbole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hyperbole: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hyperbole: Dictionary.com
  13. hyperbole: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hyperbole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hyperbole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hyperbole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hyperbole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hyperbole: Rhymezone
  19. Hyperbole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hyperbole: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hyperbole: Free Dictionary
  22. hyperbole: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. hyperbole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hyperbole: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. hyperbole: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. hyperbole: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyperbole: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  3. Hyperbole: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  4. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  5. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Hyperbole: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  7. HYPERBOLE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hyperbole: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hyperbole: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyperbole: A Word A Day
  2. hyperbole: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hyperbole: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hyperboles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
noun:  (countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) A hyperbola.

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