Trope
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English
Etymology
Template:Root From Template:Der, from Template:Der, related to Template:M and Template:M; compare Template:M. The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
Noun
Template:Examples Template:En-noun
- Template:Lb Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.
- Template:Lb An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
- Template:Lb A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
- Template:Lb Template:Non-gloss
- A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
- Template:Lb The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
- Template:Lb Template:Non-gloss
- A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
- A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
- Template:Lb A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
- Template:Lb Template:Non-gloss
- Template:Lb Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
- Template:Lb A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.
Usage notes
In the art or literature sense, the word trope is similar to Template:M and Template:M, but is not necessarily pejorative.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
- Belarusian: Template:T
- Catalan: Template:T+, Template:T+
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: Template:T, Template:T+
- Danish: Template:T+
- Dutch: Template:T+
- Finnish: Template:T+
- French: Template:T+
- German: Template:T+
- Greek:
- Ancient: Template:T
- Japanese: Template:T, Template:T+, Template:T
- Korean: Template:T
- Macedonian: Template:T
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Template:T+
- Nynorsk: Template:T
- Russian: Template:T+
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Template:T
- Roman: Template:T+
- Spanish: Template:T+, Template:T+
- Ukrainian: Template:T+
- Bulgarian: Template:T+
- Catalan: Template:T+
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: Template:T+, Template:T+
- Czech: Template:T
- Dutch: Template:T+, Template:T
- Finnish: Template:T+
- French: Template:T+, Template:T
- Georgian: Template:T
- German: Template:T+, Template:T+
- Greek:
- Ancient: Template:T
- Hungarian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T, Template:T+check
- Italian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
- Japanese: Template:T, Template:T+
- Macedonian: Template:T
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Template:T+
- Nynorsk: Template:T
- Persian: Template:T+
- Romanian: Template:T+
- Russian: Template:T+
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Template:T
- Roman: Template:T+
- Spanish: Template:T+
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: Template:T-needed
- Dutch: Template:T+
- Finnish: Template:T+
- Greek: Template:T+
- Italian: Template:T+
- Russian: Template:T-needed
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Template:T
- Roman: Template:T+
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: Template:T-needed
- Dutch: Template:T+
- Finnish: Template:T+
- Hebrew: Template:T
- Russian: Template:T-needed
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Template:T
- Roman: Template:T+
- Yiddish: Template:T
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: Template:T-needed
- Dutch: Template:T+
- Finnish: Template:T+
- Greek: Template:T+
- Italian: Template:T+
- Russian: Template:T-needed
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Template:T
- Roman: Template:T+
- Spanish: Template:T+
Verb
- Template:Lb To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
- Template:Lb Template:Non-gloss
- Template:Lb To think or write in terms of tropes.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
- Dutch: Template:T, Template:T
- Finnish: Template:T
Related terms
Further reading
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Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
Further reading
Latin
Noun
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Template:Der.
Noun
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Template:Der.