simile : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: simile	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for simile
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
simile n a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Simile \Simi"*le\, n.; pl. {Similes}. [L., from similis. See {Similar}.] (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.