Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who coins or uses metaphors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes metaphors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who makes
metaphors .
Etymologies
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metaphor + -ist
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Examples
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He was always word-building, a metaphorist, lavish with singing adjectives; but often he built in confusion because it was difficult to describe something beautiful in a new yet simple way.
The Ragged Edge Harold MacGrath 1901
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Mesell Malkontent of Faux News, the gripping cutting edge metaphorist megamedia propaganda outlet, a non-contributor of the pasty pedantry and PIG’s Pundits in General, spouts ‘demon duck du jour’, and claims, somehow, she knows, somehow, that Hezbollah is just a beauty pagent…
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