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tralation

tralation noun: the use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope.

Noun

tralation (plural tralations)

  1. (obsolete) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope.
    • My Detector could not have chosen a better man for the proof of the facility of this work, than him, who, according to the broad tralation of his rude Rhemists, gelded himself, and made himself no man for it.1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy

Forms of tralation

pluraltralations

Origin of tralation

From Latin tralatio, translatio. See translation.

Questions about tralation

What does tralation mean?
Tralation means the use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope.
What part of speech is tralation?
Tralation is a noun.
What is the plural of tralation?
The plural of tralation is tralations.

Words near tralation in the dictionary

  1. trakky daks
  2. tralala
  3. tralatician
  4. tralaticiary
  5. tralaticious
  6. tralation
  7. tralations
  8. tralatition
  9. tralatitions
  10. tralatitious
  11. tralatitiously

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