A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
English: simile
Bahasa: perbandingan, persamaan, ibarat
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perumpamaanBahasa Indonesia
adage, axiom, byword, maxim, proverb
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#9,848 of the corpus · 6.6 per million words · 28,229 occurrences
From umpama (per-…-an) · rare, #22,499
Noun
A saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
English: maxim, axiom
Bahasa: pepatah, peribahasa
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A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
English: proverb, adage, saw, byword
Bahasa: pepatah, peribahasa
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