Dictionary entry

Metaphorical

Pronunciation: /ˌmɛtəˈfɒrɪkl/

Pronunciation

/ˌmɛtəˈfɒrɪkl/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) (တစ်စုံတစ်ခုအကြောင်းကို အခြား အကြောင်းအရာ တစ်ခုဖြင့် နားလည်အောင်) တင်စားမှုသုံးထားသော။

Definition

metaphor /'metǝfǝ(r) / n [U] (က) ဥပစာ။ ‘She has a heart of stone. ’ “မိန္းကေလးရဲ႕ အသည္းကေတာ့ ေက်ာက္တံုးပဲ။ ” ❍ striking originality in her use of metaphor. (ခ) တင္စားမႈ။ a game of football used as a metaphor for the competitive struggle of life, Compare SIMILE ❏ metaphorical /metǝ'fɒrÇkl; US -'fↄ:r- / adj ဥပစာ။ တင္စားေသာ။ a metaphorical expression/phrase ❍ use metaphorical language. Compare FIGURATIVE, LITERAL ၁ (ခ) ❏ metaphorically /-kli / adv စကားအျဖစ္။ I'll leave you in Robin's capable hands—metaphorically speaking, of course!

Examples

  1. He uses the metaphor of the family to describe the role of the state.
  2. [metaphor for] : It is easy to see the crumbling building as a metaphor for the society of the time.