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noun
1.
Rhetoric. the identification of a person by an epithet or appellative that is not the person's name, as his lordship.
2.
the use of the name of a person who was distinguished by a particular characteristic, as Don Juan or Annie Oakley, to designate a person or group of persons having the same characteristic.
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Antonomasia
has a plethora of syllables.
So is antidisestablishmentarianism. Does it mean:
| opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England. |
| the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language). |
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antonomasia
use of an epithet for a proper name (or vice versa), 1580s, from L., from Gk. antonomasia, from antonomazein "to name instead," from anti "instead" + onomazein "to name," from onoma "name" (see name).
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antonomasia
a figure of speech in which some defining word or phrase is substituted for a person's proper name (for example, "the Bard of Avon" for William Shakespeare). In fiction, the practice of giving to a character a proper name that defines or suggests a leading quality of that character (such as Squire Allworthy, Doctor Sawbones) is also called antonomasia. The word is from the Greek antonomasia, a derivative of antonomazein, "to call by a new name."
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