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simile

noun

Reveal meaning and examples

A figure of speech comparing things explicitly, often using like or as.

The phrase as quiet as falling snow is a simile.

Dictionary practice example.

A simile in the new sketch described its exhausted host as moving like a clock with a weak battery, making the comparison explicit.