单词	metonym
释义	metonym noun met·​o·​nym ˈme-tə-ˌnim  : a word used in metonymy Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web Like baby feet, pregnant bodies have become a metonym for antiabortion views. Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022 In Kitamura’s books, career is frequently a metonym for character. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2021 In so many ways, golf serves as a metonym for power. Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 17 June 2021 Within a year, its name was a metonym for excellence in the art of raw fish. Pete Wells, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020 This little glass disk designed as corrective eyewear wound up as a comic prop, a universal metonym for wealth and snobbery. Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019 Hip-hop culture has long been a metonym for the American right wing’s own racist stereotypes about crime in inner cities. Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2019 And yet the phallus is a dominant symbol of the moment, as metonym for power but also an object of ridicule as gender relations shift. Vogue, 1 Apr. 2019 But to people who live in Washington, D.C., the Watergate is more than a metonym. Rachel Kurzius, Curbed, 25 Apr. 2018 See More Word History Etymology back-formation from metonymy First Known Use 1862, in the meaning defined above
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