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metonymy |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Metonymy \Me*ton"y*my\ (?; 277), n. [L. metonymia, Gr ?; ?, indicating change + ?, for ? a name: cf F. m['e]tonymie. See {Name}.] (Rhet.) 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: metonymy n : substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
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