Tropes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TROPES in dictionary:

VERB:
• TROPE, to provide with a metaphor
NOUN:
• a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression
• a significant or recurrent theme; a motif
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the figurative use of a word

Words related to TROPES

trope7

Words that contain TROPES

outropes10 boltropes13 footropes14 inotropes11 oxytropes21 zoetropes20 zootropes20 allotropes12 azeotropes21 emmetropes16 hemitropes17 rheotropes15 tightropes16 heliotropes16 phototropes18 thixotropes23 thaumatropes19

How to use TROPES in a sentence

• The tropes and metaphors, the tawdry tinsel, the common tricks of feeble rhetoricians are reproduced here as if they were the highest results of rhetorical art.
• Though our Zeal breaks out in the finest Tropes and Figures, it is not able to stir a Limb about us.
• From hence have sprung the tropes and figures, for which they wanted a name, who first practised them, and succeeded in them.
• Its scriptural supports are either ethnic figments or rhetorical tropes.
• These same tropes recur in American languages in the same connection.
• Dante shows no love of the woods or the mountains, but only dread and dislike, and draws his tropes from engineering, from shipyards, moats, embankments.
• Not that she plundered them of their fantastic tropes so greedily as Synge did.
• My lords, the woman Knows not her tropes, nor figures, nor is perfect In the academic derivation Of grammatical elocution.
• The Greek statues are tropes, which we gladly allow in their original use, but, repeated, they become flat and pedantic.

Similar words containing TROPE without suffix s

trope7 troped9 outrope9 boltrope12 footrope13 inotrope10 outroper10 outropes10 oxytrope20 zoetrope19 zootrope19 allotrope11 azeotrope20 boltropes13 emmetrope15 footropes14 hemitrope16 inotropes11 outropers11 oxytropes21 rheotrope14 tightrope15 tropeolin11 zoetropes20 zootropes20 allotropes12 azeotropes21 emmetropes16 heliotrope15 hemitropes17 phototrope17 rheotropes15 thixotrope22 tightropes16 tropeolins12 heliotropes16 neutropenia13 phototropes18 thaumatrope18 thixotropes23 neutropenic15 neutropenias14 thaumatropes19 retroperitoneal17 retroperitoneally22

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