trope

Plural: tropes

Noun

A figurative use of a word or expression; a recurring motif.
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.
An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
Mathematical senses.
A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
Mathematical senses.
The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
Musical senses.
A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
Musical senses.
A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
Musical senses.
A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
Philosophical senses.
Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
Philosophical senses.
A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.

Verb

To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.
To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.
Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.
To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.
Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.
To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.
To think or write in terms of tropes.

Examples

Using ’bingo’ as a TROPE for victory, he celebrated his high-scoring play.

Origin / Etymology

From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a manner, style, turn, way; a trope or figure of speech; a mode in music; a mode or mood in logic”), related to τροπή (tropḗ, “solstice; trope; turn”) and τρέπειν (trépein, “to turn”); compare turn of phrase. The verb is derived from the noun.

Synonyms

figure, figure of speech, image, tropify

Scrabble Score: 7

trope: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
trope: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
trope: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

trope: valid Words With Friends Word