metalepsis

metalepsis is a 10-letter English word with 2 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
2. noun. substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another

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