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synecdoche
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)
- (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.
- (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)
- (literature) synecdoche
See also
- metonymia
synecdoche From the web:
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firebox
English
Etymology
fire +? box. In the sense of a redheaded woman, from box (“vagina”).
Noun
firebox (plural fireboxes)
- (rail transport) The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned.
- The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned.
- (vulgar) A redheaded woman (by synecdoche, pars pro toto), or her red pubic hair.
Translations
See also
- red cunt hair
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