METONYMY

Metonymy

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by the name of something associated in meaning with that thing or concept.

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metonymy

Noun

  1. The use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object.
  2. A metonym.


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