What does metonymy mean?

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  1. The use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object.
  2. (countable) A metonym.
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The cool universe of digitality has absorbed the world of metaphor and metonymy.
If metaphor established a Burkean epistemology, metonymy establishes language as the foundation of that epistemology.
He mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world.
Traditional and cognitive rhetorics differ most markedly in their approach to metaphor, metonymy, and other figures.
The piece foregrounds the poetic tension between metaphor and metonymy which, I have argued elsewhere, exist in each other.
In the one there was much talk of the unconscious, of metaphor and metonymy, contradictions, resolutions, transformations and obviations.

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