HyperDic: metonymy

English > 1 sense of the word metonymy:
NOUNcommunicationmetonymysubstituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads')
English > metonymy: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningSubstituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads').
Category ofvoice(metonymy) a singer
NarrowermetalepsisSubstituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another
Broadertrope, figure of speech, figure, imagelanguage used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Spanishmetonimia, metonímia
Catalanmetonímia
Adjectivesmetonymicalusing the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated

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