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metonymy
noun
me·ton·y·my mə-ˈtä-nə-mē 
plural metonymies
: a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (such as "crown" in "lands belonging to the crown")
Did you know?
What is the difference between metonymy and synecdoche?
When Mark Antony asks the people of Rome to lend him their ears in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, he is employing the rhetorical device known as metonymy. Derived via Latin from Greek metonymia (from meta-, meaning "change, transformation," and onyma, meaning "name"), metonymy is often employed in news articles and headlines, as when journalists use the term crown to refer to a king or queen. Another common example is the use of an author's name to refer to works written by that person, as in "We are studying Hemingway." Metonymy is closely related to synecdoche, which refers to the naming of a part of something to refer to the whole thing (or vice versa), as in "We hired extra hands to help us."
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Or one that lets the signs of starvation, in Auschwitz or Utah, stand in for one another, like a metonymy. 
Anna Shechtman, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021 But rather than presenting their fate as an ending, Simpson goes beyond rhetorical strategies of synecdoche and metonymy to represent the whole encased in ice. Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021 Though Vietnam would be Simulmatics’ most profitable venture, its work there produced virtually nothing—a metonymy, perhaps, for the entirety of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2020 Another is described only as bucktoothed, a flat, one-dimensional metonymy. Yvette Benavides, ExpressNews.com, 4 June 2020 The human is reduced to a price or, in the environmental metonymy, a footprint. Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 18 May 2020 The general connection, then, is that in both watchmaking and gunmaking the term has a history of being used to denote diameter and in both cases, to some extent, has come to refer to a thing whose diameter was specified (maybe by metonymy). Jack Forster, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2017 Beyond the day’s stories, however, artists have often used (print) newspapers as metonymies for the flow and acceleration of information. Jason Farago, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017 See More
Anna Shechtman, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021 But rather than presenting their fate as an ending, Simpson goes beyond rhetorical strategies of synecdoche and metonymy to represent the whole encased in ice. Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021 Though Vietnam would be Simulmatics’ most profitable venture, its work there produced virtually nothing—a metonymy, perhaps, for the entirety of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2020 Another is described only as bucktoothed, a flat, one-dimensional metonymy. Yvette Benavides, ExpressNews.com, 4 June 2020 The human is reduced to a price or, in the environmental metonymy, a footprint. Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 18 May 2020 The general connection, then, is that in both watchmaking and gunmaking the term has a history of being used to denote diameter and in both cases, to some extent, has come to refer to a thing whose diameter was specified (maybe by metonymy). Jack Forster, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2017 Beyond the day’s stories, however, artists have often used (print) newspapers as metonymies for the flow and acceleration of information. Jason Farago, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017 See More Word History
Etymology
Latin metonymia, from Greek metōnymia, from meta- + -ōnymon -onym
First Known Use
1573, in the meaning defined above
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