"metonymy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /mɪˈtɑnəmi/ [General-American], /mɪˈtɒnəmi/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-metonymy.wav [US] 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”), {{m|grc|μετά||other}} μετά (metá, “other”), {{m|grc|ὄνομα||name}} ὄνομα (ónoma, “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
    Sense id: en-metonymy-en-noun-fFvEsIVu Disambiguation of Figures of speech: 66 34 Disambiguation of Rhetoric: 53 47 Disambiguation of Semantics: 54 46 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 92 8 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 92 8
  2. (countable) A metonym. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Rhetoric, Semantics Translations (figure of speech): metonimie (Afrikaans), փոխանունություն (pʻoxanunutʻyun) (Armenian), մետոնիմիա (metonimia) (Armenian), metonimiya (Azerbaijani), metonímia (Catalan), 借代 (ze³ doi⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 換喻 (Chinese Mandarin), 换喻 (huànyù) (Chinese Mandarin), 轉喻 (Chinese Mandarin), 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), phép hoán dụ (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-metonymy-en-noun-hNo1ujTU Disambiguation of Rhetoric: 53 47 Disambiguation of Semantics: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'figure of speech': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: metonym, metonymic, metonymically, metonymous Related terms: metalepsis, hyponymy Coordinate_terms: figurativeness, metaphor, synecdoche

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    },
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    },
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    },
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      "args": {
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    }
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "metalepsis"
    },
    {
      "word": "hyponymy"
    }
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Rhetoric"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: metaphor"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1891 September 2, William Minto, “Practical talks on writing English”, in Theodor Flood, editor, The Chautauquan, volume 13, →OCLC, page 279",
          "text": "...the principle of metonymy is simply to substitute for the plain name of a thing a name or phrase based on something connected with it.",
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        }
      ],
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        "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."
      ],
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        [
          "rhetoric",
          "rhetoric"
        ],
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        ],
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          "identify"
        ]
      ],
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        "(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."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "rhetoric",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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        "English countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A metonym."
      ],
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        [
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          "metonym"
        ]
      ],
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        "(countable) A metonym."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/mɪˈtɑnəmi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɪˈtɒnəmi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒnəmi"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "metonimie"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "pʻoxanunutʻyun",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "փոխանունություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "metonimia",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "մետոնիմիա"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "metonimiya"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "metonímia"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "ze³ doi⁶",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "借代"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "換喻"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huànyù",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "换喻"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "轉喻"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhuǎnyù",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "转喻"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "metonymie"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "metonymi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "metonymia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "metonymia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "métonymie"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "metonimia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "meṭonimia",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "მეტონიმია"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Metonymie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Namenvertauschung"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "metonymía",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μετωνυμία"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "metonímia"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "érintkezésen alapuló névátvitel"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "nafnhvörf"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "merkingarskipti"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "meatonaime"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "metonimia"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かんゆほう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kan'yuhō",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "換喩法"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かんゆ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kan'yu",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "換喩"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "hwanyu",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "환유"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "metonymia"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "talemåte"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metonymi"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "metonimia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "metonímia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "metonimie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "metonímija",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "метони́мия"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mitunimìa"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mitunimia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "metonimija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "metonimia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "metonymi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "halituring"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "ad aktarması"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "düz değişmece"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "mecazımürsel"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "metonimi"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "figure of speech",
      "word": "phép hoán dụ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "metonymy"
}

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