Words Like METONYMY

We have put together a list of words that are similar to METONYMY.

3 Alternative Words Similar to metonymy

1 Figure Noun Synonym Words Like Figure

2 Image Noun Synonym Words Like Image

3 Trope Noun Synonym Words Like Trope

4 definitions of metonymy

1 In rhetoric, change of name; a trope or figure of speech that consists in substituting the name of one thing for that of another to which the former bears a known and close relation.

2 The use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object.

3 A metonym.

4 substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')

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