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trope

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
trope /trəʊp/

▶noun a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.

– origin C16: via L. from Gk tropos ‘turn, way, trope’, from trepein ‘to turn’.

'trope' also found in these Oxford entries:

entropy - geotropism - monotropy - nootropic - pleiotropy - thixotropy - trophy - tropic - -tropic - tropical - tropology

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