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conceptual metaphors

conceptual metaphors is the plural of conceptual metaphor.

Meaning of conceptual metaphor

Noun

conceptual metaphor (plural conceptual metaphors)

  1. The understanding of one idea or conceptual domain in terms of another.

Questions about conceptual metaphors

What is conceptual metaphors the plural of?
Conceptual metaphors is the plural of conceptual metaphor.

Words near conceptual metaphors in the dictionary

  1. conceptual fallacies
  2. conceptual fallacy
  3. conceptual inverse
  4. conceptual inverses
  5. conceptual metaphor
  6. conceptual metaphors
  7. conceptual physics
  8. conceptual schema
  9. conceptual schemas
  10. conceptual schemata
  11. conceptualisation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conceptual metaphors (page history and authors); conceptual metaphor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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