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metonymous

English

Etymology

From metonymy +? -ous.

Adjective

metonymous (comparative more metonymous, superlative most metonymous)

  1. Metonymic, metonymical.

Derived terms

  • metonymously

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metonymy

English

Etymology

From Late Latin metonymia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (met?numí?, change of name), from ???? (metá, other) + ????? (ónoma, name).

Noun

metonymy (countable and uncountable, plural metonymies)

  1. (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.
    Coordinate term: metaphor
    Hypernyms: trope, figure of speech
    Hyponyms: synecdoche, synecdochy
  2. (countable) A metonym.

Derived terms

  • metonymous
  • metonym
  • metonymic
  • metonymically

Translations

See also

  • metalepsis
  • Category:English metonyms
  • hyponymy

Further reading

  • metonymy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • trope (literature) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • metonymy at OneLook Dictionary Search

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