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tralations

tralations is the plural of tralation.

Meaning of tralation

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

Questions about tralations

What is tralations the plural of?
Tralations is the plural of tralation.

Words near tralations in the dictionary

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

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