figure of speech

Questions about figure of speech

What does figure of speech mean?

figure of speech means "language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense".

What is another word for figure of speech?

Close synonyms include trope, figure, image. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is figure of speech a common word?

figure of speech is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.