metaphoreme

English

Etymology

metaphor +‎ -eme

Noun

metaphoreme (plural metaphoremes)

  1. (linguistics) A non-literal expression with a relatively fixed lexicogrammatical form and specific semantics and pragmatics, associated with metaphoric language.
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