Defenition of the word metonymy

• Defenition of the word metonymy

  • substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
  • substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads'')

Hyponyms for the word metonymy

• • metalepsis

Hypernyms for the word metonymy

• • figure
  • figure of speech
  • image
  • trope

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