TROPE - 7 definitions found
trope n 1: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [syn: trope, figure of speech, figure, image] trope 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. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) trope 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 horror movie tropes> 2. a phrase or verse added as an embellishment or interpolation to the sung parts of the Mass in the Middle Ages Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Trope \Trope\, n. [L. tropus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn. See Torture, and cf. Trophy, Tropic, Troubadour, Trover.] (Rhet.) (a) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech. (b) The word or expression so used. In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope never passed his lips. --Bancroft. Note: Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figures the genus, of which trope is a species; others make them different things, defining trope to be a change of sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what becomes so by such change. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms trope n. Figure of speech. |
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