prispodoba
1. prispodoba, metafora
a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity [uporaba izraza za označitev nečesa, kar to izraz dobesedno ne pomeni, s ciljem nakazati podobnost]
2. prispodoba, primerjava, primera
a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') [figura govora, ki izraža podobnost med stvarmi različnih vrst (običajno z obliko 'kot' ali 'kakor')]
3. prilika, parabola, alegorija, prispodoba, basen
a short moral story (often with animal characters) [kratka moralna zgodba ( pogosto z živalskimi liki)]
4. metafora, prispodoba, besedna figura
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [jezik, uporabljen v figuralnem ali neslovnem pomenu]
5. alegorija, prispodoba
an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor [izrazit način, ki uporablja fiktivne like in dogodke za opis neke teme s pomočjo sugestivnih podob, razširjena metafora]