different between metonym vs meronym

English

Etymology

Back-formation from metonymy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?t?n?m/
• Homophone: metanym

Noun

metonym (plural metonyms)

1. (grammar) A word that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object; a word used in metonymy.
2. (by extension) A concept, idea, or word used to represent, typify, or stand in for a broader set of ideas.

Synonyms

• synonym

Hyponyms

• synecdoche (rhetoric)

Translations

See also

• demonym
• metanym
• Category:English metonyms

Danish

Etymology

Back-formation from metonymi.

Noun

metonym n (singular definite metonymet, plural indefinite metonymer)

1. (grammar) metonym
   • 2011, Jan Krag Jacobsen, 29 spørgsmål, Samfundslitteratur (?ISBN), page 124

     Den lille trailer […] blev […] brugt som et metonym for sort arbejde.

     The little trailer […] was […] used as a metonym for undeclared work.

   • 2010, Krydsfelt Grundbog i Dansk, Gyldendal Uddannelse (?ISBN), page 133

     I Herman Bangs Stuk (1887) er den arkitektoniske stuk blot et udsnit af tidens pyntesyge overfladeliv bliver et metonym på samtiden.^[sic]

     In Herman Bang's Stuk (1887), the architectural stucco is only a slice of the gaudy surface life of the time becomes a metonym of the time.^[sic]

   • 2011, Thomas Wiben Jensen, Kognition og konstruktion: to tendenser i humaniora og den offentlige debat, Samfundslitteratur (?ISBN), page 250

     ... en tendens til at bruge hjernen som et metonym for ens personlighed, ...

     ... a tendency to use the brain as a metonym for one's personality, ...

Inflection

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t??ny?m/, /m?t??ny?m/

Noun

metonym c

1. (linguistics) metonym

Declension

English

Etymology

From mero- +? -onym, from Ancient Greek ????? (méros, “part”) + ????? (ónuma, “name”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???n?m/

Noun

meronym (plural meronyms)

1. (semantics) A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.

   Synonym: partonym

   Antonym: holonym

   • 1998, George A. Miller, “Nouns in WordNet”, in Christiane Fellbaum (editor), Wordnet: An Electronic Lexical Database,^[1] MIT Press, ?ISBN, page 38,

     If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile} or {human_body}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms, but many of those meronyms will also be meronyms of other wholes. That is to say, some components serve as parts of many different things: think of all the different mechanisms that have gears.

Holonyms

• semantic network
• thesaurus

Coordinate terms

• hypernym
• hyponym

Derived terms

• comeronym
• meronymic
• meronymy
• meronymous

Translations

See also

• synecdoche

Swedish

Noun

meronym c

1. (semantics) meronym

Declension