metonymic
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated
to say `he spent the evening reading Shakespeare' is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works
Related & opposite
- metonym derivation
- metonymy derivation
- figurative similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | metonym |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | metonymy |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | figurative |