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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -trope n combining form - indicating a turning towards, development in the direction of, or affinity to: heliotrope
Etymology: from Greek tropos a turn trope (trōp),USA pronunciation n. - Rhetoric
- any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
- an instance of this. Cf. figure of speech.
- Religiona phrase, sentence, or verse formerly interpolated in a liturgical text to amplify or embellish.
- Philosophy(in the philosophy of Santayana) the principle of organization according to which matter moves to form an object during the various stages of its existence.
- Greek trópos turn, turning, turn or figure of speech, akin to trépein to turn
- Latin tropus figure in rhetoric
- 1525–35
- a combining form meaning "one turned toward'' that specified by the initial element (heliotrope);
also occurring in concrete nouns that correspond to abstract nouns ending in -tropy or -tropism: allotrope.
- Greek -tropos; see trope, tropo-
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