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Jackson6612 Posted 18 years ago
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There can be a lot of different meanings...
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There can be a lot of different meanings for a single English word. Apart from its literal meaning it can have different figurative meanings, i.e. metaphorical and allegorical.
There can be a lot of different meanings for a single English word. Apart from its literal meaning it can have different figurative meanings, i.e. metaphorical and allegorical.
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There can be a lot of different meanings for a single English word. e. metaphorical or allegorical.
- There can be a lot of different meanings for a single English word.
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- metaphorical or allegorical.
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There can be a lot of different meanings for a single English word. Apart from its literal meaning, it can have different figurative meanings, i.e. metaphorical or allegorical.
There can be a lot of different meanings for a single English word. Apart from its literal meaning, it can have different figurative meanings, i.e. metaphorical or allegorical.
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Hi Mr Micawber,
Are there other figurative meanings other than metaphorical or allegorical which a word can take?
Are there other figurative meanings other than metaphorical or allegorical which a word can take?
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It may be just a matter of terminology choice, but I suppose that you could also include symbolic and euphuistic. That's all that comes to mind offhand.
It may be just a matter of terminology choice, but I suppose that you could also include symbolic and euphuistic. That's all that comes to mind offhand.
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Hello Mr Micawber,
Though I wrote this post, I have forgotten what I really meant by 'literal meaning'.
By 'literal meaning', do we mean dictionary definitions for a word?
Thank you.
Though I wrote this post, I have forgotten what I really meant by 'literal meaning'.
Jackson6612Apart from its literal meaning
By 'literal meaning', do we mean dictionary definitions for a word?
Thank you.
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Not really, because a good dictionary includes all the meanings, literal and figurative. 'Literal' is a little hard to define because there are so many different kinds of words, but the literal meaning is the basic or primary meaning, the simplest or most obvious meaning.
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Not really, because a good dictionary includes all the meanings, literal and figurative. 'Literal' is a little hard to define because there are so many different kinds of words, but the literal meaning is the basic or primary meaning, the simplest or most obvious meaning.
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