Metonymy
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Metonymy is a term for a figure of speech.[1] Metonymy a thing or concept is indirectly named. It is not called by its own name, but by the name of something which is closely related or implicit in the context.[2] For example,
- Brussels as a metonym for the European Union
- Casa Rosada ("Pink House") as a metonym for the President of Argentina
- Élysée Palace as a metonym for the President of France
- Hollywood as a metonym for US cinema
- Westminster as a metonym for the Parliament of the United Kingdom
- White House used as a metonym for the President of the United States
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The English Wiktionary has a dictionary definition (meanings of a word) for: metonymy
- ↑ "Metonymy" at Rhetoric.byu.edu; retrieved 2012-1-14.
- ↑ Welsh, Alfred Hux and James Mickleborough Greenwood. (1893). "Metonymy," Studies in English Grammar: A Comprehensive Course for Grammar Schools, High Schools, and Academies, p. 222.
