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What does metonymy mean?

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Noun
  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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He mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world.
The cool universe of digitality has absorbed the world of metaphor and metonymy.
Traditional and cognitive rhetorics differ most markedly in their approach to metaphor, metonymy, and other figures.
If metaphor established a Burkean epistemology, metonymy establishes language as the foundation of that epistemology.
Like words, they signify things beyond themselves by means of linguistic devices such as metaphor and metonymy.
Horace certainly employs metaphors, but metonymy is by far the more common trait in his poetry and brings his use of language closer to a vernacular diction.

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