tropes

We have found lemma(root) word of tropes : trope.

Definitions


[trəʊp], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression
(e.g: both clothes and illness became tropes for new attitudes toward the self)


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Origin:
Old English Old English tropes (genitive), via Latin from Greek tropos ‘turn, way, trope’, from trepein ‘to turn’




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