word-vault/dist/data/cards/me/metaphor.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "metaphor",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a word or phrase used to describe somebody/something else, in a way that is different from its normal use, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful, for example She has a heart of stone; the use of such words and phrases",
            "labels": "(US English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a game of football used as a metaphor for the competitive struggle of life"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the writer’s striking use of metaphor"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘This vale of tears’ is a metaphor for the human condition."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He uses the metaphor of fire to represent hatred."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ladder metaphor works in several ways."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an extended metaphor for human existence"
                },
                {
                    "text": "one of the central metaphors in the book"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the metaphor of life as a journey"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Language", "Literature and writing"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["appropriate", "apt", "good"],
                "verb + metaphor": ["employ", "invoke", "use"],
                "metaphor + verb": [
                    "describe something",
                    "represent something",
                    "imply something"
                ],
                "preposition": ["metaphor for", "metaphor of"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmetəfə(r)//ˈmetəfɔː(r)/",
                "audio": "me/metaphor/metaphor__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmetəfər//ˈmetəfɔːr/",
                "audio": "me/metaphor/metaphor__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent.: from French métaphore, via Latin from Greek metaphora, from metapherein ‘to transfer’."
}