metonymy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin metonymia, from Ancient Greek μετωνυμίᾱ (metōnumíā, “change of name”), from μετά (metá, “other”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /mɪˈtɑnəmi/
Audio (US) (file)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɪˈtɒnəmi/
- Rhymes: -ɒnəmi
Noun[edit]
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metonymy (countable and uncountable, plural metonymies)
- (rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.
- Hypernyms: trope, figure of speech
- Hyponym: synecdoche
- Coordinate term: metaphor
- 1891 September, William Minto, “Practical talks on writing English”, in Theodor Flood, editor, The Chautauquan, volume 13, →OCLC, page 279:
- ...the principle of metonymy is simply to substitute for the plain name of a thing a name or phrase based on something connected with it.
- (countable) A metonym.
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Translations[edit]
figure of speech
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metonym — see metonym
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- metonymy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- trope (literature) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “metonymy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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