-
closely ****ociated with that
thing or concept. The
words metonymy and
metonym come from
Ancient Gr**** μετωνυμία (metōnumía) 'a
change of name'; from...
- The
following is a list of
common metonyms. A
metonym is a
figure of
speech used in
rhetoric in
which a
thing or
concept is not
called by its own name...
- The
cinema of the
United States,
consisting mainly of
major film
studios (also known, metonymically, as Hollywood), has been a
significant influence on...
- "K Street" has
become a
metonym for
lobbying in the
United States, the same way Wall
Street in New York City
became a
metonym for the U.S.
financial markets...
- not only as the
common name of the
headquarters building, but also as a
metonym for the
Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
itself and
police officers, especially...
- Hanja: 大韓民國; lit. Great Han Republic) is
sometimes used by
South Koreans as a
metonym to
refer to the
Korean ethnicity (or "race") as a whole,
rather than just...
- world. New York is a top-tier
global technology hub.
Silicon Alley, once a
metonym for the
sphere encomp****ing the
metropolitan region's high
technology industries...
-
executive branch under a
specific president. Thus, a
metonym is a type of synonym, and the word
metonym is a
hyponym of the word synonym.[citation needed]...
-
sometimes referred to by the
metonym "Westminster" or "Whitehall", as many of its
offices are
situated there.
These metonyms are used
especially by members...
- term
Fleet Street (where most
national newspapers operated)
remains a
metonym for the
British national press. The
communications company WPP is the world's...
