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Definitions
a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing
Word origin
Back-formation from metonymy.
Used in a sentence
“Calling a government a "city hall" is using a metonym.”
“...to say that "New York was thrown into a state of great excitement," when we mean the inhabitants of New York, is technically to use the metonym of putting "the container for the thing contained."”
“See also: symbol, model, microcosm, archetype, exemplar, proxy”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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