Dictionary Entry
metonymy
metonymy is a 8-letter English word with 2 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 19 · 2 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.
- 2noun
substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
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