http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3614.32638)http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htm#717698Wed, 06 May 2009 02:52:27 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:717698Mister Micawber0http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htm#717698http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-717698.xml. Not really, because a good dictionary includes all the meanings, literal and figurative. &#39;Literal&#39; is a little hard to define because there are so many different kinds of words, but the literal meaning is the basic or primary meaning, the simplest or most obvious meaning. .http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htm#717641Wed, 06 May 2009 01:49:35 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:717641Jackson66121http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htm#717641http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-717641.xmlHello Mr Micawber, Though I wrote this post, I have forgotten what I really meant by &#39;literal meaning&#39;. Apart from its literal meaning By &#39;literal meaning&#39;, do we mean dictionary definitions for a word? Thank you.http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htm#553473Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:29:02 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:553473Jackson66122http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htm#553473http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-553473.xmlThank you.http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htm#553383Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:29:02 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:553383Mister Micawber3http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htm#553383http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-553383.xml. It may be just a matter of terminology choice, but I suppose that you could also include symbolic and euphuistic . That&#39;s all that comes to mind offhand.http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htm#553376Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:29:02 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:553376Jackson66124http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htm#553376http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-553376.xmlHi Mr Micawber, Are there other figurative meanings other than metaphorical or allegorical which a word can take?http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htm#553126Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:29:02 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:553126Mister Micawber5http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htm#553126http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-553126.xml. There can be a lot of different meanings for a single English word. Apart from its literal meaning , it can have different figurative meanings, i.e. metaphorical or allegorical.http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htmTue, 24 Feb 2009 03:29:02 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:553117Jackson66126http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThereDifferentMeanings/gkjpz/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-553117.xmlIs the information in the following text correct? There can be a lot of different meanings for a single English word. Apart from its literal meaning it can have different figurative meanings, i.e. metaphorical and allegorical.