how to pronounce metaphor

/ˈmɛt.ə.fɔːɹ/

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metaphor is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of metaphor in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… chapel was a metaphor for a church in …”

meaning of metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used in place of another word or phrase to suggest a similarity between the two.

metaphor frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word metaphor occurs in english on average 9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics metaphor can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that metaphor can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;