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Definition grammatical metaphor in British English

grammatical metaphor noun

[countable/uncountable] noun
/ɡrəˌmætɪk(ə)l ˈmetəfə(r)/
1

the way in which concepts that are usually expressed in one grammatical form are expressed in another, mainly by using a noun to express a concept normally expressed by a verb

Example

The most obvious feature of the poem is the recurrence of grammatical metaphor.

Synonyms and related words
affix affixation anaphora
Definition grammatical metaphor in British English