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Definition of Metonymic
1. Adjective. Using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated. "To say `he spent the evening reading Shakespeare' is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works"
Similar to: Figurative, Nonliteral
Derivative terms: Metonym, Metonym, Metonymy
Definition of Metonymic
1. a. Used by way of metonymy.
Definition of Metonymic
1. Adjective. Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object. ¹
2. Noun. A metonym. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metonymic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metonymic
Literary usage of Metonymic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two by Hugh Miller (1871)
"... the universality of the Deluge is spoken of, and the terms employed in those
admittedly metonymic passages in which the whole is substituted for a part. ..."
2. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901)
"2 It is further applied to the signs of the zodiac, and even to the entire heaven
wilh its system of stars ; the metonymic signification, ' g^reat stars' ..."
3. Armageddon: Or, The Overthrow of Romanism and Monarchy; the Existence of the by Samuel Davies Baldwin (1863)
"NEBUCHADNEZZAR,S PANORAMIC VISION OF THE SIX KINGDOM OF THE WORLD. THE history
of the world, and of Israel, as detailed by the literal or metonymic prophets ..."
4. Armageddon, Or The Overthrow of Romanism and Monarchy: The Existence of the by Samuel Davies Baldwin (1884)
"THE history of the world, and of Israel, as detailed by the literal or metonymic
prophets, is repeated by symbolic predictions. ..."
5. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"... a leading steer was fastened in front for easier guidance of the team, making
up a ' spike-team'. That such a word is predestined to metonymic use Vedic ..."
6. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"... she now detested her 'hand' so much as to be unable to bring herself to the
metonymic mention of it. The lady's difficulty was peculiar to sweet natures ..."
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