Meaning Of The Word Trope

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Trope Meaning

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What's The Definition Of Trope?

-trope in American English
a turning or changing
combining form: a combining form meaning “one turned toward” that specified by the initial element (heliotrope); also occurring in concrete nouns that correspond to abstract nouns ending in -tropy or -tropism

-trope in British English
combining form in countable noun: indicating a turning towards, development in the direction of, or affinity to

trope in American English
the use of a word or words in a figurative sense
noun: any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense

trope in British English
noun: a word or expression used in a figurative sense

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