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Trope
trope
noun Etymology: Latin tropus, from Greek tropos turn, way, manner, style, ~, from trepein to turn Date: 1533 1. a. a word or expression used in a figurative sense ; figure of speech b. a common or overused theme or device ; cliche the usual horror movie ~s 2. a phrase or verse added as an embellishment or interpolation to the sung parts of the Mass in the Middle Ages
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n. a figurative (e.g. metaphorical or ironical) use of a word. Etymology: L tropus f. Gk tropos turn, way, trope f. trepo turn ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1533, from L. tropus "a figure of speech," from Gk. tropos "turn, direction, turn or figure of speech," related to trope "a turning" and tropein "to turn." Technically, in rhetoric, a figure of speech which consists in the use of a word or phrase in a sense other than that which is proper to it. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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