different between synecdoche vs casbah

English

Alternative forms

• syndoche
• synechdoche

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin synecdoch?, from Ancient Greek ????????? (sunekdokh?, “receiving together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??n?k.d?.ki/, /s??n?k.do?.ki/

Noun

synecdoche (countable and uncountable, plural synecdoches)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part.

   Hyponyms: pars pro toto, totum pro parte

   Hypernym: metonymy

   • 2002, Christopher Hitchens, "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic, Sep 2002:

     "Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general.
2. (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech.

   Synonym: synecdochy

Usage notes

Technically, a synecdoche is a part of the referent while a metonym is connected or associated but not necessarily a part of it.

Derived terms

Related terms

• docetism
• meronymy

Translations

See also

• metaphor
• metonymy

Further reading

• synecdoche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin synecdoche, from Ancient Greek ????????? (sunekdokh?, “receiving together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sin?k?do?x?/

Noun

synecdoche f (plural synecdoches, diminutive synecdochetje n)

1. (literature) synecdoche

See also

• metonymia

English

Alternative forms

• kasbah, qasbah

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ???????? (qa?aba).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kaz.b??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæz.b?/

Noun

casbah (plural casbahs)

1. The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
2. (by synecdoche) The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East.

Translations

Anagrams

• Bachas, Schaab, bachas

French

Alternative forms

• kasbah

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (qa?aba)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kas.ba/

Noun

casbah f (plural casbahs)

1. casbah

Further reading

• “casbah” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).