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Noun Concept
Categories: Narrative techniques, Figures of speech, Tropes by type, Articles with short description, Metonymy
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metonymy  Denominatio  Metonimia  Metonomy  metonymic
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Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') WordNet 3.0
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Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept. Wikipedia
Figure of speech where a thing or concept is referred to indirectly by the name of something closely associated with it Wikidata
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. Wiktionary
IS A
trope
Rhetorical device
usage
differentiation
HAS KIND
metalepsis
synecdoche
people-first language
HAS INSTANCE
highbrow
middlebrow
Pyrrhic victory
Cadmean victory
DA
herostratisk berømmelse
+1 relations
DERIVATION
metonymic
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
DIFFERENT FROM
metaphor
MEMBER OF CATEGORY DOMAIN
voice
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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metonymy
Wikipedia
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metonymy
Wikidata
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metonymy
Wiktionary
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metonymy
Wikipedia Redirections
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Denominatio, Metonimia, Metonomy, metonymic, Metonymic occupational name, metonymically, Metonymies, Metonymously, metonyms, Meytonomy

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