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metonomy

metonomy is the misspelling of metonymy.

Meaning of metonymy

Noun

metonymy (countable and uncountable, plural metonymies)

  1. (rhetoric) 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.
    • Metonymy does new names impose,
      And things for things by near relation shews.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[The Seven Tropes.] Metonymy.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 7
  2. (countable) A metonym.

Questions about metonomy

What is metonomy the misspelling of?
Metonomy is the misspelling of metonymy.

Words near metonomy in the dictionary

  1. meton.
  2. Metonic
  3. Metonic cycle
  4. Metonic cycles
  5. metonitazene
  6. metonomy
  7. metonym
  8. metonymic
  9. metonymical
  10. metonymically
  11. metonymics

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