Definition of Metonymies. Meaning of Metonymies. Synonyms of Metonymies

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Definition of Metonymies

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Meaning of Metonymies from wikipedia

- Metonymy (/mɪˈtɒnɪmi, mɛ-/) is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely ****ociated with that thing or concept...
- Metaphor (drawing a similarity between two things) and metonymy (drawing a contiguity between two things) are two fundamental opposite poles along which...
- October 2013. Somov, Georgij Yu (2013). "The interrelation of metaphors and metonymies in sign systems of visual art: An example analysis of works by V. I. Surikov"...
- Sixty Metonymies is the debut studio album of New York City-based avant-garde band Tartar Lamb. The album is essentially one 40-minute composition for...
- Sixty Metonymies, with Randall Dunn in Seattle, Washington in December 2006 in the middle of another difficult winter tour. Sixty Metonymies was self-released...
- original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2017. "Definition of Metonymy". Chegg. Archived from the original on July 31, 2020. Retrieved November...
- Synecdoche (/sɪˈnɛkdəki/ sih-NEK-də-kee) is a type of metonymy; it is a figure of speech that uses a term for a part of something to refer to the whole...
- the government of the country of which it is the capital, as a form of metonymy. For example, the "relations between London and Washington" refers to the...
- referring to the whole using only one of its attributes – i.e. using a metonymy. For example, in a single computer system, this would be the computer's...
- referred to as the House of Peers or the Lords Spiritual and Temporal by metonymy. Within the House of Commons, it is euphemistically known as "another place"...