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Metonymy

//mɪˈtɑnəmi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object. countable, rhetoric, uncountable

    "Metonymy does new names impose, And things for things by near relation shews."

  2. 2
    substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in ‘they counted heads’) wordnet
  3. 3
    A metonym. countable

Etymology

From Late Latin metonymia, from Ancient Greek μετωνυμίᾱ (metōnumíā, “change of name”), from μετά (metá, “other”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).

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