英语词汇“metonymy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

When you refer to something by the name of one of its parts, that’s metonymy, like saying “my wheels” instead of "my car."

The noun metonymy, pronounced "muh-TAH-nuh-mee," comes from the Greek word metonymia, meaning “a change of name.” Metonymy is not simply name substitution or metaphor, but a slang use of a part of the thing to name the whole thing, like "giving someone a hand" with a project, or “keeping the roof over your head," by paying the bills for the place you live.

WORD FAMILY

metonymy: metonymical, metonymies

USAGE EXAMPLES

In English it’s unreliable narrator, or ethos, or metonymy, or thesis sentence.

New York Times(Sep 07, 2016)

Fort McMurray is more than an environmental hotspot, more than a metonymy for oil sands, more than a grail for jobseekers and grifters.

The Guardian(May 06, 2016)

In Mr. Coleman’s “Metonymies of Pastness” for solo piano the music alternated between brooding darkness, chirpy clarity and an iridescent harmonic mist.

New York Times(Jun 12, 2015)

n substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')

Hypo|Hyper

metalepsis

substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another

figure, figure of speech, image, trope

language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

单词	metonymy
释义	metonymy (once / 69526 pages) n When you refer to something by the name of one of its parts, that’s metonymy, like saying “my wheels” instead of "my car." The noun metonymy, pronounced "muh-TAH-nuh-mee," comes from the Greek word metonymia, meaning “a change of name.” Metonymy is not simply name substitution or metaphor, but a slang use of a part of the thing to name the whole thing, like "giving someone a hand" with a project, or “keeping the roof over your head," by paying the bills for the place you live. WORD FAMILY metonymy: metonymical, metonymies USAGE EXAMPLES In English it’s unreliable narrator, or ethos, or metonymy, or thesis sentence. New York Times(Sep 07, 2016) Fort McMurray is more than an environmental hotspot, more than a metonymy for oil sands, more than a grail for jobseekers and grifters. The Guardian(May 06, 2016) In Mr. Coleman’s “Metonymies of Pastness” for solo piano the music alternated between brooding darkness, chirpy clarity and an iridescent harmonic mist. New York Times(Jun 12, 2015) n substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') Hypo\|Hyper metalepsis substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another figure, figure of speech, image, trope language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
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