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Metonymy - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Metonymy : (noun)
1: substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the
name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Metonymy : \Me*ton"y*my\ (?; 277), n. [L. metonymia, Gr. ?; ?,
indicating change _ ?, for ? a name: cf. F. m['e]tonymie. See
Name.] (Rhet.)
A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests
it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good
provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a
warm heart, that is, warm affections.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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