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Metonymy
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example Sentences
- The editors of the book have not succumbed to the current mania for metonymy that has infected some recent art picture books.
- In academic language, this is metonymy: the part can stand in for the whole.
- It's simple metonymy is what I'm saying.
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World English Dictionary
| metonymy (mɪˈtɒnɪmɪ) | |
| —n , pl -mies | |
| Compare synecdoche the substitution of a word referring to an attribute for the thing that is meant, as for example the use of the crown to refer to a monarch | |
| [C16: from Late Latin from Greek: a changing of name, from meta- (indicating change) + onoma name] | |
| metonymical | |
| —adj | |
| meto'nymic | |
| —adj | |
| meto'nymically | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
metonymy
1560s, from Gk. metonymia, lit. "a change of name," from meta- "change" (see meta-) + onyma, dial. of onoma "name" (see name). Figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is
suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government").
EXPANDRelated: Metonymic
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
metonymy me·ton·y·my (mə-tŏn'ə-mē)
n.
In schizophrenia, a language disturbance in which an inappropriate but related word is used in place of the correct one.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
metonymy
(from Greek metonymia, "change of name," or "misnomer"), figure of speech in which the name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original, as "crown" to mean "king" ("The power of the crown was mortally weakened") or an author for his works ("I'm studying Shakespeare"). A familiar Shakespearean example is Mark Antony's speech in Julius Caesar in which he asks of his audience: "Lend me your ears."
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