Definition of metonymy Metonymy
me•ton•y•my
We found 5 definitions of metonymy from 4 different sources.
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What does metonymy mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: metonymies |
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| metonymy - substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') | ||
| figure of speech, trope, image, figure language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | ||
| metalepsis substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another | ||
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Wiktionary 
- metonymy (Noun)
The use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object. - metonymy (Noun)
A metonym.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- metonymy (n.)
A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.
Part of speech
🔤- metonymy, noun, singular of metonymies.
