A word that can be interpreted in a non literal meaning is said to have a figurative meaning.
A word that can be interpreted in a non literal meaning is said to have a figurative meaning.
The term for words that have more than the literal meaning is "figurative language." This includes figures of speech like metaphors, similes, and idioms which convey meanings beyond their literal interpretation.
Verbal irony
Verbal irony
literal meaning
The term 'like' have the same meaning with its literal meaning.
The literal term "staking out" an animal or "staking out" (marking) a claim are just separate words. The police term meaning surveillance is a "stakeout."
impressionists
Utopia is the term meaning no place, in the literal translation, or ideal place, in the commonly used meaning.
The term you are looking for is "idiom". It refers to a phrase where the literal meaning is different from the intended meaning, often with a cultural or historical significance.
The term is "connotation" (as compared to the literal meaning or denotation).
The literal meaning of the term "Lord of the Flies" refers to a pig's head on a stick that is worshipped by a group of boys stranded on an island in the novel of the same name by William Golding.