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me·ton·y·my
/məˈtɑnəmi/
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From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Me·ton·y·my
n.
Rhet.
A
trope
in
which
one
word
is
put
for
another
that
suggests
it
;
as
,
we
say
,
a
man
keeps
a
good
table
instead
of
good
provisions
;
we
read
Virgil
,
that
is
,
his
poems
;
a
man
has
a
warm
heart
,
that
is
,
warm
affections
;
a
city
dweller
has
no
wheels
,
that
is
,
no
automobile
.
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From:
WordNet (r) 2.0
metonymy
n
:
substituting
the
name
of
an
attribute
or
feature
for
the
name
of
the
thing
itself
(
as
in
`
they
counted
heads
')
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