different between synecdoche vs holonym
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:
- what synecdoche mean
- synecdoche what does it mean
- what is synecdoche in literature
- what is synecdoche in figure of speech
- what is synecdoche in poetry
- what is synecdoche and examples
- what is synecdoche new york about
- what is synecdoche in english
holonym
- For the semantic relations that can be included in Wiktionary entries, see Wiktionary:Semantic relations.
English
Etymology
From holo- +? -nym.
Noun
holonym (plural holonyms)
- (semantics) A term that denotes a whole, a part of which is denoted by a second term.
Antonyms
- (term that denotes a whole): meronym
Holonyms
- semantic network
- thesaurus
Derived terms
- holonymy
- holonymous
Translations
See also
- synecdoche
Swedish
Noun
holonym c
- (semantics) holonym
Declension
holonym From the web:
- what is hyponymy relation
- what is holonym and examples
- what does holonymy mean
- metonymy example
- what mean holonym
- what language is holonym
- what is hyponymy and examples
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- synecdoche vs holonym
- thesaurus vs holonym
- hash vs thumbprint
- thumbprint vs hyponym
- footprint vs thumbprint
- thumbprint vs fingerprint
- thumbprint vs print
- thumbprint vs thumb
- definiton vs explanation
- definition vs definiton
- monoculturalism vs monoculture
- february vs amogitian
- amogitian vs octothorp
- amogitian vs rubbish
- write vs amogitian
- balderdash vs amogitian
- amogitian vs sitemap
- february vs junie
- junie vs kristonasko
- junie vs kalendre