Synonyms and Antonyms for Metonymy

Following is a list of 200 synonym words and phrases that are related to metonymy:

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4 Letter Words

meat

5 Letter Words

tropemanestable

6 Letter Words

similedeixiszeugmaactantmerismchoricmeton.erminerobber

7 Letter Words

metonymdeicticmimesiskenningtropingsimileshomonymeponymycopularanalogylitotesanaphorneologymeronym

8 Letter Words

metaphorpolysemyhomonymymetonymsantonymyhyponymysemioticsymbolicallusionanaphoratricolonsemanticreferentallegorygenetivetypologyprosodicmerismusmeronymyoxymoronholonymy

9 Letter Words

ostensionprolepsissymbolismiconicitymetaphorsquotativeassonanceanaphoricpolysemicparataxisekphrasisintertextindexicalverbalismsemioticseuphemismdialecticpartitivesyllepsissignifierhomophonyallegoricdialogismhomonymicdiachronyetymologyabjectionvocativesunivocitymorphemictropologysynonymiaanagraphy

10 Letter Words

synecdochemetalepsisanastropheanalogicalmetaphoricepideicticdysphemismcopulativechronotopesymbolicalhyperbatonfigurativeinfixationrhetoricalsententialdenotativedoublenesslinguisticsyntacticspolysemouslexicologyparatacticpragmaticsenjambmentsynecdochyanthimeriaheteronymy

11 Letter Words

synecdochicsynecdochesperiphrasiscatachresissyntagmaticsynechdochelocutionaryparonomasianonsymbolicneologisticreificationdisjunctionsymbolistichomographicnarrativitylogocentricdialecticaltranslativesyntacticaliterabilityconnotativediscoursivetypologicalnominalizedallegoricalperiphrasesantonomasiametaphoricsautonomasiaadnominatioholophrasisreferential

12 Letter Words

polysemantictropologicallogocentrismidiomaticityparadigmaticallusivenessdenominativemetaphoricalindexicalityetymologicalallegorizingdiscursivityperiphrasticsemioticallyintratextualagnominationonomatopoeiaantanaclasisprosopopoeia

13 Letter Words

metonymicallysymbolizationthematizationsignificationsymbolisationnonlinguisticmetaphoricitydistanciationforegroundingonomatopoeticdissimilationhistoricality

14 Letter Words

literalizationnominalizationetymologicallymisrecognitionnarratologicalcircumlocutionlexicalizationmetalinguisticschematizationfigurativeness

15 Letter Words

personificationintertextualitynarrativizationhistoricizationgrammaticalizedextralinguisticmorphosyntacticnominalizations

16 Letter Words

aestheticization

17 Letter Words

defamiliarizationuntranslatabilityoverdeterminationrhetorical device

18 Letter Words

grammaticalisationgrammaticalization

19 Letter Words

decontextualizationrecontextualizationconventionalizationrepresentationalism

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