Definition of Trope

1. Noun. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.


Definition of Trope

1. n. The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.

Definition of Trope

1. Noun. (literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales. Similar to archetype and cliché but not necessarily pejorative. ¹

2. Noun. A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor. ¹

3. Noun. (music) A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music. ¹

4. Noun. (music) A phrase or verse added to the mass when sung by a choir. ¹

5. Noun. (Judaism) A cantillation. ¹

6. Verb. To use, or embellish something with a trope. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trope

1. the figurative use of a word [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trope

troosers
troostite
troostites
trooz
trop
tropaean
tropaeola
tropaeolin
tropaeolums
tropaic acid
tropane
tropanes
troparia
troparion
tropate
trope (current term)
troped
tropeic acid
tropein
tropeine
tropeines
tropentane
tropeolin
tropeolins
tropes
troph-
trophaeal
trophaeall
trophallaxes
trophallaxis

Literary usage of Trope

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Metaphor and Simile in the Minor Elizabethan Drama by Frederic Ives Carpenter (1895)
"trope I have used as a generic term comprising the principal aesthetic or imaginative figures, of which metaphor and simile are the leading examples.3 These ..."

2. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"In order to see just what Isokrates does here, it will be a help to keep in mind the strict distinction between a ( trope ' and 'trope* 0 t \ Figures. r and ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The most accurate definition, applicable to all the different kinds of tropes, might be the following: A trope is an interpolation in a liturgical text, ..."

4. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"(Ital.-G.-Slav.) Ital. trombone, a trombone, augmentative form of Ital. tromba, a trumpet ; see Trump (i). Troop, a crew. (F.) F. troupe ; MF trope. ..."

5. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"trope " and }.- "Figure." CUM'. Isocrates gave a really important development to the idea of the period itself. Hitherto it had been too cramped : he was ..."

6. The Philosophy of Rhetoric by George Campbell (1846)
"A new metaphor (and the same holds, though in a lower degree, of every trope) is never regarded with indifference. If it be not a beauty, it is a blemish. ..."

7. Jewish Services in Synagogue and Home by Lewis Naphtali Dembitz (1898)
"CHAPTER II THE trope THE Greek word ... (trope) for melody, sounded "Tropp," has come in the jargon of the German Jews to denote the musical reading of the ..."

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