the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Similitude; comparison.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In rhetoric, a comparison; specifically, a simile, especially a formal simile, as in poetry or poetic prose, taken from a present or imagined object or event: distinguished from a paradigm, or comparison with a real past event.
Word Usage
"Colossians 2: 17, the type is said to be skia ton mellonton "a shadow of things to come"; in Hebrews 9: 9, it is called parabole, a"