The term was in provincial use as a metonym.
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Metonym
//ˈmɛ.tə.nɪm//
Synonyms for "metonym" (15 found)
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16 translations across 15 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- փոխանուն noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 轉喻 /转喻 noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
Danish
1 entries- metonym noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
Dutch
1 entries- metoniem noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
Finnish
1 entries- metonyymi noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
French
1 entries- métonyme noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
German
1 entries- Metonym noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
Japanese
1 entries- 換喩語 noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
Macedonian
1 entries- метоним noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- metonym noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
Portuguese
2 entries- metonímia noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
- metônimo noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
Russian
1 entries- метони́м noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
Spanish
1 entries- metónimo noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
Swedish
1 entries- metonym noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hoán dụ noun (word that names an object from a single characteristic of it)
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Calling a government a "city hall" is using a metonym.
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...to say that "New York was thrown into a state of great excitement," when we mean the inhabitants of New York, is technically to use the metonym of putting "the container for the thing contained."
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She not only outlines the devastating effects of seferberlik but also highlights the changing meaning of this term - as it acquired a civilian dimension in its Arabic rendition (safar barlik) - and its potency as a metonym for the war as a whole.
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