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Definitions
substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in ‘they counted heads’)
Word origin
From Late Latin metonymia, from Ancient Greek μετωνυμίᾱ (metōnumíā, “change of name”), from μετά (metá, “other”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).
Used in a sentence
“Metonymy does new names impose, And things for things by near relation shews.”
“...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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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