Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.

synonyms: figure, image, trope.

Roget 566: phrase, expression, set phrase; sentence, paragraph; figure of speech etc. 521; idiom, idiotism^†; turn of expression; style.    paraphrase etc. (synonym) 522; periphrase etc. (circumlocution) 573; motto etc. (proverb) 496^†.    phraseology etc. 569.    ... show more

Roget 516: meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport; force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope.    [important part of the meaning] substance; gist, essence, marrow, spirit etc. 5.    matter; subject, subject matter; argument, text, sum and substance.    general meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning, unstrained meaning, true meaning, etc. (exact) 494 honest meaning, etc. 543 prima facie meaning [Lat.]; etc. (manifest) 525.    letter of the law.    literally; after acceptation.    synonym; implication, allusion etc. (latency) 526; suggestion etc. (information) 527; figure of speech etc. 521; acceptation etc. (interpretation) 522.    ... show more

Roget 521: figure of speech; facon de parler [Fr.], way of speaking, colloquialism.    phrase etc. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage^†, catachresis^†; metonymy [Gramm.], synecdoche [Sem.]; autonomasia^†, irony, figurativeness etc. adj.; image, imagery; metalepsis^†, type, anagoge^†, simile, personification, prosopopoeia^†, allegory, apologue^†, parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application.    exaggeration, hyperbole etc. 549.    association, association of ideas (analogy) 514.1 ... show more

Roget 563: neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym^†; barbarism.    archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.    corruption, missaying^†, malapropism, antiphrasis^†.    pun, paranomasia^†, play upon words; word play etc. (wit) 842; double-entendre [Fr.] etc. (ambiguity) 520; palindrome, paragram^†, anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms.    dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism^†; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.    dog Latin, macaronics^†, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; babu English^†, chi-chi.    figure of speech etc. (metaphor) 521; byword.    colloquialism, informal speech, informal language.    substandard language, vernacular.    vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity.    jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot; St.    Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang.    pseudology^†.    pseudonym etc. (misnomer) 565; Mr.    So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em^†, whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy^†, thingumbob; je ne sais quoi [Fr.].    neologist^†, coiner of words.    ... show more

Roget 549: exaggeration; expansion etc. 194; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura^†; extravagance etc. (nonsense) 497; Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry [Slang].    storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing etc. (overestimation) 482; puff, puffery etc. (boasting) 884; rant etc. (turgescence) 577^†.    figure of speech, facon de parler [Fr.]; stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination; flight of fancy etc. (imagination) 515.    false coloring etc. (falsehood) 544; aggravation etc. 835.    ... show more

Dutch: manier van spreken, figuurlijke uitdrukking, stijlfiguur, beeldspraak, troop, trope
Polish: figura retoryczna