metonymy
IPA: mʌtˈɔnʌmi
noun
- (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.
- (countable) A metonym.
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Examples of "metonymy" in Sentences
- The phrase is a form of metonymy.
- However, isn't this actually an example of a metonymy
- All these are feasible surmises by the process of metonymy.
- By metonymy, the term can refer to the university as a whole.
- Metonymy compared to metaphor in cognitive science and linguistics.
- Metonymy is an aspect of the English language and of other languages.
- I am not looking for the word metonymy, but for a more specific term.
- I have absolutely no objections against using the metonymy elsewhere.
- I don't understand how the prow could be a metonymy of the ship itself.
- Both of these reifications are examples of the linguistic phenomenon metonymy.
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