metonymic's Usage Examples:

figure of speech, or one could interpret a phrase metaphorically or metonymically.

take either singular or plural verb forms depending on context and the metonymic shift that it implies.

some form of the Latin parent word "claustrum" is frequently used as a metonymic name for monastery in languages such as German.

In a metonymic sense, the "Chrysanthemum Throne" also refers rhetorically to the head.

The word comes from the French word foulard, with the same proper and metonymic meanings.

Vonk is a Dutch metonymic occupational surname.

and circuses" (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement.

Through metonymic usage, the dismissal of a batsman is known as the taking of a wicket,.

Mythology allowing whoever goes there to be forever young - it may also be metonymic for Ireland herself.

" It may be a metonymic occupational name for a producer or seller of salt or an habitational.

West New Britain are referred to as "Kombes" in Papua New Guinea, in metonymic reference to the significant Kove (or Kombe) people.

fibers Denier, also Denyer, a French and English surname (probably a metonymic occupational name for a moneyer or minter, hence also a (rare) given name.

City of London, which was part of the fortification's bailey, hence the metonymic name.

to lassoing and raising cattle and horses"; gaúcho has also acquired a metonymic signification in Brazil, meaning anyone, even an urban dweller, who is.

George Lakoff explained the inaccuracy of metonymic models, through which people jump to conclusions without sufficient elaboration.

A few plant surnames such as Pease and Onions are metonymic, for sellers of peas and onions respectively.

"The pen is mightier than the sword" is a metonymic adage, penned by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, indicating that communication (particularly.

Synonyms:

nonliteral; metonymical; figurative;

Antonyms:

typo; nonrepresentational; unrhetorical; literal;