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Example or attribute of something used to represent the whole, as "sword" for "military power"
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metonym
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Word definitions for metonym in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A word that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object; a word used in metonymy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1788; see metonymy .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a word that is used metonymically; a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing
Usage examples of metonym.
That black evening gown, concealing and revealing her form, becomes the metonym of the new sexual identity she has acquired with it.
It is the tag of that first strategic maneuveremblem, metonym, the name people revive every time history rounds up its usual innocents.
In the wake of the groundbreaking prose fiction written by members of the Natural school, literary realists in mid-nineteenth-century Russia were able to use food imagery and fictional meals in their works in less Rabelaisian and more mimetically purposeful ways: that is, as metonyms or synecdoches through which to describe contemporary social reality.
To say that all higher thought is based on metaphor and metonym is one thing.