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metonymous
English
Etymology
From metonymy +? -ous.
Adjective
metonymous (comparative more metonymous, superlative most metonymous)
- 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)
- (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
- (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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