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Noun Concept
Categories: Rhetoric, All Wikipedia articles needing clarification, Articles with short description, Tropes by type, Synecdoche
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synecdoche  Syndecdoche  Syndoche  Syndoches  Syndochic
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Substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa WordNet 3.0
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Substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Synecdoche is a type of metonymy; it is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole, or vice versa. Wikipedia
Linguistic term. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Use of a term for a part of something to refer to the whole or vice versa Wikidata
A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part. Wiktionary
Figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
trope
Rhetorical device
metonymy
HAS INSTANCE
Tin Pan Alley
DERIVATION
synecdochic
MEMBER OF USAGE DOMAIN
face
hearth
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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synecdoche
Wikipedia
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synecdoche
Wikidata
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synecdoche
Wiktionary
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synecdoche
Wikipedia Redirections
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Syndecdoche, Syndoche, Syndoches, Syndochic, synecdoches, Synecdochic, Synecdochical, synecdochically, Synecdoheic, Synechdoche, Synechdoches, Synechdochic, Synekdoche

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