Metonymy

Definition:

• (n.) A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.

Compare metonymy with other words:

metaphorical vs. metonymy

metonymy vs. oxymoron

dichotomy vs. metonymy

metonymy vs. symbolism

irony vs. metonymy

metonymy vs. mobile

metonymical vs. metonymy

euphemism vs. metonymy

metalepsis vs. metonymy

metonymic vs. metonymy

metonymy vs. synecdoche

metonymy vs. trope

identify vs. metonymy

characteristic vs. metonymy

metaphor vs. metonymy

metonymy vs. synonym