About The Word Metonymy
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Metonymy
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What's The Definition Of Metonymy?
[n] substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
Synonyms | Synonyms for Metonymy: Related Terms | Find terms related to Metonymy: See Also | figure | figure of speech | image | metalepsis | trope Metonymy In Webster's Dictionary \Me*ton"y*my\ (?; 277), n. [L. metonymia, Gr. ?; ?,
indicating change + ?, for ? a name: cf. F. m['e]tonymie. See
{Name}.] (Rhet.)
A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests
it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good
provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a
warm heart, that is, warm affections.
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