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metaphor |ˈmɛtəfə, -fɔː|nouna figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable: when we speak of gene maps and gene mapping, we use a cartographic metaphor | [ mass noun ] : her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor.• a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else: the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering.DERIVATIVESmetaphoric |-ˈfɒrɪk|adjectiveORIGIN late 15th cent.: from French métaphore, via Latin from Greekmetaphora, from metapherein ‘to transfer’.