Word
Metonymy
How many syllables?
4 Syllables
How it's divided?
me-ton-y-my
Definition
- n. - 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.
- noun - Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
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