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Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A grounding fact; a correspondance between the underlying truth and our ideas and constructions based on that truth.
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noun
An overarching metaphor; a metaphor that encompasses several sub-metaphors.
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noun
A metaphor that is particularly widespread or dominant.
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noun
A metaphor about metaphors.
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English metaphor English supermetaphor From super- + metaphor.
