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Definition of Metonym
1. Noun. A word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing. "Plastic is a metonym for credit card"
Definition of Metonym
1. Noun. A word that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object; a word used in metonymy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metonym
1. a word used in metonymy [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metonym
Literary usage of Metonym
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... Rings—New Light on His Assassination—Three Thousand Members in his Union —The
Murder Broke it Up—Stephen was a First Class Business Man—The metonym. ..."
2. English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases by William Carew Hazlitt (1907)
"A metonym for poverty, used by Randolph in his Hey for Honesty, 1651, or rather
perhaps by FJ, the editor of that posthumous ..."
3. Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases: Terms and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"Hye eng/e eed, sounds hanged, which is not the metonym of hang'd in these purposed
travesties, any more than drowned is of ..."
4. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1908)
"526 (metonym). 1879. Type, Coprinus clavatus (Batt.) Fries. (Syll. 5 : 1080. ...
Ench. Fung, in (metonym). 1886. ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by John Oswald, Joseph Thomas, James Lynd, John Miller Keagy (1868)
"... or metonym'ic, a. ... a. anto?iom'asy, n. metonym'ical, ... n. homon'ymy, n.
metonym'ically, ad. ..."
6. Clavis Novi Testamenti philologica by Christian Abraham Wahl (1843)
"mine metonym. res vel persona, in qua conspici- tur ... Luc. metonym. potent. vel: га; ..."
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