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Metonymy

Metonymy Meaning & Definition
Metonymy Definition And Meaning

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')

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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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