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Noun [English]

IPA: /mɪˈtɑnəmi/ [General-American], /mɪˈtɒnəmi/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-metonymy.wav Forms: metonymies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒnəmi Etymology: From Late Latin metonymia, from Ancient Greek μετωνυμίᾱ (metōnumíā, “change of name”), from μετά (metá, “other”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|LL.|metonymia}} Late Latin metonymia, {{der|en|grc|μετωνυμίᾱ||change of name}} Ancient Greek μετωνυμίᾱ (metōnumíā, “change of name”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} metonymy (countable and uncountable, plural metonymies)
  1. (rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object. Tags: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Categories (topical): Rhetoric, Figures of speech, Rhetoric, Semantics
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  2. (countable) A metonym. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Rhetoric Translations (figure of speech): metonimie (Afrikaans), փոխանունություն (pʻoxanunutʻyun) (Armenian), մետոնիմիա (metonimia) (Armenian), metonimiya (Azerbaijani), metonímia (Catalan), 借代 (ze³ doi⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 換喻 /换喻 (huànyù) (Chinese Mandarin), 轉喻 /转喻 (zhuǎnyù) (Chinese Mandarin), metonymie [feminine] (Czech), metonymi [common-gender] (Danish), metonymia [feminine] (Dutch), metonymia (Finnish), métonymie [feminine] (French), metonimia [feminine] (Galician), მეტონიმია (meṭonimia) (Georgian), Metonymie [feminine] (German), Namenvertauschung [feminine] (German), μετωνυμία (metonymía) [feminine] (Greek), metonímia (Hungarian), érintkezésen alapuló névátvitel (Hungarian), nafnhvörf [neuter, plural] (Icelandic), merkingarskipti [neuter, plural] (Icelandic), meatonaime [feminine] (Irish), metonimia [feminine] (Italian), 換喩法 (kan'yuhō) (alt: かんゆほう) (Japanese), 換喩 (kan'yu) (alt: かんゆ) (Japanese), 환유 (hwanyu) (Korean), metonymia [feminine] (Latin), talemåte [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), metonymi [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), metonimia [feminine] (Polish), metonímia [feminine] (Portuguese), metonimie [feminine] (Romanian), метони́мия (metonímija) [feminine] (Russian), mitunimìa [feminine] (Sicilian), mitunimia [feminine] (Sicilian), metonimija [feminine] (Slovene), metonimia [feminine] (Spanish), metonymi [common-gender] (Swedish), halituring (Tagalog), ad aktarması (Turkish), düz değişmece (Turkish), mecazımürsel (Turkish), metonimi (Turkish), hoán dụ (Vietnamese)
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Derived forms: metonym, metonymic, metonymically, metonymous Related terms: metalepsis, hyponymy Coordinate_terms: figurativeness, metaphor, synecdoche

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      "word": "érintkezésen alapuló névátvitel"
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