simile Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

WordNet

Simi"*le noun
Etymology
L., from similis. See Similar.
Wordforms
plural Similes
Definitions
  1. (Rhet.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
    A good swift simile, but something currish. Shak.

Webster 1913