-
business attire, such as
salespeople or attorneys. 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,
primarily ****ociated with
major film
studios collectively referred to as Hollywood, has
significantly influenced the global...
- "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...
-
attracting numerous high
technology start-up companies, as
Silicon Alley, the
metonym for New York City's
entrepreneurship ecosystem, has
expanded from Lower...
- Hemisphere. Geopolitically, the term
Western Hemisphere is
often used as a
metonym for the
Americas or the "New World", even
though geographically the hemisphere...
- to: Hollywood, Los Angeles, a
neighborhood in
California Hollywood, a
metonym for the
cinema of the
United States Hollywood may also
refer to: Hollywood...
- five
largest technology companies in the
United States,
symbolized by the
metonym "Silicon Valley",
where they are based.
According to Fortune, as of 2020[update]...
- 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...
- the
Westminster political system, the
Civil Service –
often known by the
metonym of
Whitehall –
forms an
inseparable part of the
British government. The...
