Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A change in the use of a word, or the use of a word in a less proper but more significant sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The use of a
word in afigurative or extended sense; ametaphor ; atrope .
Etymologies
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Latin tralatio, translatio. See translation.
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