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metonymies

metonymies is the plural 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 metonymies

What is metonymies the plural of?
Metonymies is the plural of metonymy.

Words near metonymies in the dictionary

  1. metonym
  2. metonymic
  3. metonymical
  4. metonymically
  5. metonymics
  6. metonymies
  7. metonymize
  8. metonymized
  9. metonymizes
  10. metonymizing
  11. metonymous

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