Trope
21TROPE — s. m. T. de Rhétorique. Figure, emploi d une expression dans un sens figuré. Cent voiles, pour dire, Cent vaisseaux, est un trope. La métonymie, la métaphore, la synecdoche, etc., sont des tropes. Un trope hardi. Le Traité des tropes, ou… …
22Trope — Tro|pe 〈f. 19〉 bildlicher Ausdruck, poetische Wendung, poetisches Bild, z. B. „Wiege“ für „Geburtsort“; Sy Tropos [zu grch. tropos „Wendung, Wechsel“] * * * Tro|pe, die; , n [griech. trope̅̓, eigtl. = (Hin)wendung, Richtung, zu: trépein = wenden] …
23trope — UK [trəʊp] / US [troʊp] noun [countable] Word forms trope : singular trope plural tropes literature a use of a word or expression in an unusual way to help a writer to achieve an effect …
24-trope — I. .ˌtrōp noun combining form ( s) Etymology: French, from Greek tropos turn, direction, way 1. : turn : change : affinity for …
25trope — noun Etymology: Latin tropus, from Greek tropos turn, way, manner, style, trope, 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 …
26TROPE — n. m. T. de Rhétorique Figure, emploi d’une expression dans un sens figuré. La métonymie, la métaphore, la synecdoche, la catachrèse, l’antonomase sont des tropes. Un trope hardi. Le Traité des Tropes …
27trope — /trohp/, n. 1. Rhet. a. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. b. an instance of this. Cf. figure of speech. 2. a phrase, sentence, or… …
28-trope — a combining form meaning one turned toward that specified by the initial element (heliotrope); also occurring in concrete nouns that correspond to abstract nouns ending in tropy or tropism: allotrope. [ < Gk tropos; see TROPE, TROPO ] * * * …
29trope — 1. noun a) A figure of speech, such as a metaphor, in which a word or phrase is used other than in a literal manner. b) A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early …
30trope — 1 In classical philosophy a particular kind of argument, as the ten tropes of Aenesidemus. 2 In a usage following work of D. C. Williams (1899–1983), a trope is the instantiation of a universal at a place and time, an ‘abstract particular’ that… …
