METONYMY
Dictionary entry overview: What does metonymy mean? • METONYMY (noun)
The noun METONYMY has 1 sense:
1. substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads')
Familiarity information: METONYMY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• METONYMY (noun)
Meaning:
Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads')
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("metonymy" is a kind of...):
figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
Domain member category:
voice ((metonymy) a singer)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "metonymy"):
metalepsis (substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another)
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