tropes

Meaning of tropes

plural noun
  1. a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.
    both clothes and illness became tropes for new attitudes toward the self
    my sense that philosophy has become barren is a recurrent trope of modern philosophy
    perhaps it is a mistake to use tropes and parallels in this eminently unpoetic age

mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek tropos ‘turn, way, trope’, from trepein ‘to turn’.

Information about tropes

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of tropes is: trope.
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Hyphenation of tropes

tropes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • tropes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of tropes

opters, Petros, Portes, poster, presto, repost, repots, respot, stoper, topers

Words that rhyme with tropes

opes, Cercopes, Scopes, Vertoscopes, aethrioscopes, apocopes, arthroscopes, auriscopes, baroscopes, benthoscopes, bioscopes, borescopes, bronchoscopes, chromoscopes, chronoscopes, colonoscopes, colposcopes, copes, cryoscopes, cystoscopes, diascopes, dichrooscopes, dichroscopes, dipleidoscopes, ebullioscopes, electroscopes, endoscopes, engiscopes, engyscopes, epidiascopes, episcopes, fetoscopes, fiberscopes, fluoroscopes, galvanoscopes, gastroscopes, gyroscopes, hagioscopes, helioscopes, hodoscopes, horoscopes, hydroscopes, hygroscopes, iconoscopes, iriscopes, kaleidoscopes, kinescopes, kinetoscopes, koniscopes, lactoscopes

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