Figure of speech in which something is referred to by the name of an associated thing
Not to be confused with meronymy or meronomy.
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The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, and is a common metonym used to refer to the U.S. military and its leadership.
Metonymy (/mɪˈtɒnɪmi,-nəmi,mɛ-/)[1][2][3] is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.[4]
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Metonymy (/mɪˈtɒnɪmi, -nəmi, mɛ-/) is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing...
Metaphor (drawing a similarity between two things) and metonymy (drawing a contiguity between two things) are two fundamental opposite poles along which...
with other types of figurative language, such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy, and simile. One of the most commonly cited examples of a metaphor in English...
Synecdoche (/sɪˈnɛkdəki/ sih-NEK-də-kee) is a type of metonymy; it is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the...
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original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2017. "Definition of Metonymy". Chegg. Archived from the original on July 31, 2020. Retrieved November...
pro parte is Latin for "the whole for a part"; it refers to a kind of metonymy. The plural is tota pro partibus, "wholes for parts". In context of language...
the government of the country of which it is the capital, as a form of metonymy. For example, the "relations between London and Washington" refers to the...
Habsburg monarchy (of the Austrian branch) is often called "Austria" by metonymy. Around 1700, the Latin term monarchia austriaca came into use as a term...
hold, rather than the amount of space the container itself displaces. By metonymy, the term "volume" sometimes is used to refer to the corresponding region...
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A grand duchy is a country or territory whose official head of state or ruler is a monarch bearing the title of grand duke or grand duchess. Prior to the...
the same as an extended arm). Synonyms are also a source of euphemisms. Metonymy can sometimes be a form of synonymy: the White House is used as a synonym...
referred to as the House of Peers or the Lords Spiritual and Temporal by metonymy. Within the House of Commons, it is euphemistically known as "another place"...
Bilder (The Book of Images). Rilke extensively engaged with metaphors, metonymy and contradictions in his poetry and prose to convey disbelief and a crisis...
interpretations. Similarly, figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and metonymy establish a resonance between otherwise disparate images—a layering of...
law, an eponym can refer to a generic trademark or brand name, a form of metonymy, such as aspirin, heroin and thermos in the United States. In geography...
of religious or cultural suffocation. It is sometimes interpreted as a metonymy of the First they came ... narrative [citation needed], to mean that after...
Patrick; Lambert, James (2011). "Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy". Studies in Philology. 108 (1): 108–132. doi:10.1353/sip.2011.0001. ISSN 1543-0383...
Parsimony". pp. 110–118. Koskela, Anu (2015-01-23). "On the distinction between metonymy and vertical polysemy in encyclopaedic semantics" (PDF). www.sussex.ac...
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Papers. ACM. pp. 41–50. Moulthrop, Stuart (1991). "Reading From the Map: Metonymy and Metaphor in the Fiction of 'Forking Paths'". In Delany, Paul; Landow...
can be referred to as 'pairs of hands', and a vehicle as one's 'wheels'. Metonymy is similar to synecdoche, but instead of a part representing the whole...
"stranger" or "enemy" (the latter being where terms like "hostile" derive). By metonymy, the Latin word hospitalis means a guest-chamber, guest's lodging, an inn...
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