Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of metonymy; used by way of metonymy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Used by way of metonymy; using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to, a
word orphrase that names an object from a singlecharacteristic of it or of a closely related object. - noun A
metonym .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated
Etymologies
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Examples
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Your search for "metonymic" meanings instead of taking things first at face value is particularly distressing to me.
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In Morte D'Urban, we can see the extended use Powers makes of the priesthood as a kind of metonymic device to explore the themes of community, America, the spiritual/moral life.
The Priestly Comedy of J. F. Powers Gordon, Mary 1982
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From this we can identify that time is constructed in two ways -- one as metonymic (the correlation of events) and one as metaphoric (from an understanding of motion and resources).
Jason Derr: Seeing The Future In 3-D: Incarnation And The Sputnik Moment Jason Derr 2011
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From this we can identify that time is constructed in two ways -- one as metonymic (the correlation of events) and one as metaphoric (from an understanding of motion and resources).
Jason Derr: Seeing The Future In 3-D: Incarnation And The Sputnik Moment Jason Derr 2011
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Via Kittler once more, the Faustian (Goethean) bargain — trading one's mute soul for the voice of poetry — comes true yet again in an oralized alphabetic writing resembling nothing so much as the metonymic skids of the unconscious.
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Not all figuration is metaphoric though; in metonymy, the process of interpretation is not based on resemblances but on other forms of association -- the association of a crown with a king, for example, such that we use the artefact as a metonymic stand-in for the person.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (1) Hal Duncan 2008
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Not all figuration is metaphoric though; in metonymy, the process of interpretation is not based on resemblances but on other forms of association -- the association of a crown with a king, for example, such that we use the artefact as a metonymic stand-in for the person.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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In its metonymic relation to the season, however, Shelley's wind, with all its surface effects, is also the recessional index of a further unseen presence.
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On the other hand, the combination of all these parallel, metonymic stories that accumulate and flesh out one another, creates a subtext whose increasing scope rivals the actual text, illuminating the work with a unique poetics.
Judith Hendel. 2009
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‘Code is Law’ is also a metonymic inference referencing a paradigm.
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