[U] (technical) the act of referring to sth by the name of sth else that is closely connected with it, for example using the White House for the US president
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for metonymy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is metonymy a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, metonymy is tagged as noun.
Does metonymy appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — metonymy appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
