trope

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊp
• (RP) enPR: trōp, IPA: /ˈtɹəʊp/, X-SAMPA: /"tr@Up/

Etymology

From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (tropos, “a turn, way, manner, style, a trope or figure of speech, a mode in music, a mode or mood in logic”).

Noun

Wikipedia trope (plural tropes)

1. (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.
2. A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
3. (music) A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
4. (music) A phrase or verse added to the mass when sung by a choir.
5. (music) A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
6. (Judaism) A cantillation.

Derived terms

• tropical
• tropology

Translations

figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used other than in a literal manner

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 比喻 (cmn) (bǐyù), 譬喻 (cmn) (pìyù)

• Dutch: troop (nl) f, figuurlijke uitdrukking (nl)
• French: trope (fr) m,expression figurative (fr) f
• German: Tropus (de) m, Trope (de) f

• Italian: tropo (it) m
• Japanese: 転義法 (ja) (てんぎほう, tengihō), 比喩 (ja) (ひゆ, hiyu)
• Romanian: trop (ro) m
• Russian: троп (ru) (trop) m 
• Spanish: tropo (es)

music: short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music

• Dutch: troop (nl) f
• Italian: tropo (it) m

• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

music: phrase or verse added to the mass when sung by a choir

• Dutch: troop (nl) f
• Italian: tropo (it) m

• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

judaism: cantillation

• Dutch: troop (nl) f

• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

literature: something recurring across a genre or type of literature

• Dutch: troop (nl) f

• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

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• Greek: τρόπος m

Verb

trope (third-person singular simple present tropes, present participle troping, simple past and past participle troped)

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

Translations

use a trope

• Dutch: een troop (nl) gebruiken (nl), van een troop (nl) voorzien (nl)

External links

• trope in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• trope in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• trope at OneLook Dictionary Search
• TV Tropes Site with numerous current examples of tropes.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• repot
• tepor
• toper

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French

Noun

trope m (plural tropes)

1. (music, literature, linguistics) trope

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Latin

Noun

trope

1. vocative singular of tropus