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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Simile \Sim"i*le\, noun; pl. {Similes}. [L., from similis. See {Similar}.] (Rhet.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
A good swift simile, but something currish. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
simile
noun: a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "simile": accordance, affinity, agreement, alikeness, allegory, alliance, alliteration, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, aping, apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis, apostrophe, approach, approximation, assimilation, balancing, catachresis, chiasmus, circumlocution, climax, closeness, community, comparability, comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics, comparative literature, comparative method, compare, comparing, comparison, conformity, confrontation, confrontment, contrast, contrastiveness, conversion, copying, correlation, correspondence, distinction, distinctiveness, ecphonesis, emphasis, exclamation, gemination, hypallage, hyperbaton, hyperbole, identity, imitation, inversion, irony, likeness, likening, litotes, malapropism, matching, meiosis, metaphor, metonymy, mimicking, nearness, onomatopoeia, opposing, opposition, oxymoron, parallelism, paregmenon, parenthesis, parity, periphrasis, personification, pleonasm, preterition, prolepsis, proportion, regression, relation, repetition, resemblance, sameness, sarcasm, semblance, similarity, similitude, simulation, spoonerism, syllepsis, symploce, synecdoche, trope of comparison, weighing, zeugma
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