liknelse — meaning in English
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English meaning
- comparison noun An act of comparing two or more things, or the result of doing so.
- parable noun A short story used to teach a moral or spiritual lesson through comparison.
- simile noun A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using a linking word such as 'like' or 'as', in order to make a description more vivid.
Senses
liknelse is used for these senses in English:
- comparison An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
- parable A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.
- simile A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.