Usually means: Using one thing to symbolize another.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word metaphorically:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. metaphorically: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. metaphorically: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metaphorically: Collins English Dictionary
  4. metaphorically: Vocabulary.com
  5. Metaphorically, metaphorically: Wordnik
  6. metaphorically: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. metaphorically: Wiktionary
  8. metaphorically: Dictionary.com
  9. Metaphorically: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. metaphorically: Rhymezone
  11. metaphorically: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. metaphorically: Free Dictionary
  13. metaphorically: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. metaphorically: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metaphorically: Encyclopedia

(Note: See metaphor as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (metaphorically)

adverb:  (manner) In a metaphorical manner; not literally; by means of metaphor.
adverb:  (as a sentence adverb) Used to draw attention that what follows is a metaphor, not to be taken literally

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