| 单词 | synecdoche |
| 释义 | synecdoche —synecdochic /sin'ik dok"ik/, synecdochical, adj. —synecdochically, adv. /si nek"deuh kee/, n. Rhet. a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man. [1350-1400; < ML < Gk synekdoché, equiv. to syn- SYN- + ekdoché act of receiving from another, equiv. to ek- EC- + -doche, n. deriv. of déchesthai to receive] |
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