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Crossword-Solution: METAPHOR 8 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Metaphor n. The transference of the relation between one set of
objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a
compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.

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Word Anagrams
METAPHOR anagram HOMEPART, MOPHATER, MOREPHAT, OTHERMAP, ROMEPATH, TOPMAHER

We have 32 clues for the answer “METAPHOR”

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Figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared 1 answer
figure of speech that makes analogy between two things 1 answer
figure of speech that makes an analogy between two things 1 answer
Symbolic figure of speech 1 answer
Spoon theory, for example 1 answer
Something that shouldn't be mixed 1 answer
Something often mixed 1 answer
Sand in an hourglass, for time 1 answer
Nerves of steel, e.g. 1 answer
NERVES OF STEEL 1 answer
Love is a rose for example 1 answer
It may be mixed 1 answer
Implied comparison 1 answer
Heart of gold, for one 1 answer
Franklin's "A good conscience is a continual Christmas," e.g. 1 answer
Allegory's kin 1 answer
"Why, the world's mine oyster." 1 answer
"The Asphalt Jungle," literarily 1 answer
"Love is a battlefield," e.g. 1 answer
"Life's a beach" is one 1 answer
"Life is a bowl of cherries," e.g. 1 answer
"All the world's a stage," for example. 1 answer
Literary comparison 2 answers
It's sometimes mixed 2 answers
"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," e.g. 2 answers
A BOWL OF CHERRIES 10 answers
anagoge 10 answers
analogy 17 answers
Comparison 19 answers
Figure of speech 23 answers
simile 30 answers
Allegory 39 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble METAPHOR8-letter words that start with M8-letter words that end in R8-letter words containing ET8-letter words containing OR8-letter words with M and E

Sentences with METAPHOR (5)

Keeping up the metaphor of the political guillotine, the whole may be considered as the POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF A DECAPITATED SURVEYOR: and the sketch which I am now bringing to a close, if too autobiographical for a modest person to publish in his lifetime, will readily be excused in a gentleman who writes from beyond the grave.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Neither term is in serious use yet as of mid-1991, but many hackers find the metaphor attractive, and each may develop a denotation in the future.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Kennedy.” The pages of that book were like a battlefield; the laboring author had fallen back from metaphor after metaphor, abandoned position after position.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Free-nets are built around a city metaphor, complete with schools, hospitals, libraries, courthouses, and other public services.
Surfing the Internet Jean Armour Polly 1993
FLEISCHHAUER demonstrated several additional examples of the prototype interfaces: One was AM's metaphor for the network future, in which a kind of reading-room graphic suggests how one would be able to go around to different materials.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993

Quotes with METAPHOR (3)

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.
Christopher Vogler The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
Gustave Flaubert November
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 26 times in crossword archives (1956–2023).