trope

Other forms of trope

plural

tropes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about trope

What does trope mean?

trope means "language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense".

How many syllables are in trope?

trope has 1 syllable: trope.

What is another word for trope?

Close synonyms include figure of speech, 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 trope a common word?

trope 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.