| NOUN | communication | metonymy | substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') |
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| Meaning | Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads'). | |
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| Category of | voice | (metonymy) a singer |
| Narrower | metalepsis | Substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another |
| Broader | trope, figure of speech, figure, image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
| Spanish | metonimia, metonímia | |
| Catalan | metonímia | |
| Adjectives | metonymical | using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated |
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