Usually means: Comparison using "like" or "as".
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word simile:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. simile: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. simile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. simile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. simile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. simile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Simile, simile: Wordnik
  7. simile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. simile: Wiktionary
  9. simile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. simile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. simile: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. simile: Dictionary.com
  13. simile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. SIMILE, Simile (computer virus), Simile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Simile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. simile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. simile: Rhymezone
  18. Simile, simile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. simile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. simile: Free Dictionary
  21. simile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. simile: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. simile: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. simile: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. simile: Online Etymology Dictionary

Art (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. simile: Global Glossary
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  3. Simile: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  4. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  5. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Simile: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  8. SIMILE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. simile: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. simile: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.

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