Definition of metonymy in English:

metonymy

nounPlural metonymies mɪˈtɒnɪmiməˈtɑnəmi

mass noun

The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the turf for horse racing.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the one there was much talk of the unconscious, of the underlying grammar of myths, of metaphor and metonymy, contradictions, resolutions, transformations and obviations.
- But at least as many clues can be found in a culture's use of metaphor and metonymy based on X to name other things, its words from X.
- These strong probabilities are structured according to our notions of the way the world works-notions that arc mediated by cognitive tools such as narrative, metaphor, and metonymy.
- Although Burke's conventional definition of synecdoche (a part for the whole) sounds strikingly similar to metonymy, it functions for him as a corrective to metonymical excess.
- Traditional and cognitive rhetorics differ most markedly in their approach to metaphor, metonymy, and other figures.
- Shortly before this he distinguishes Donne ‘the master of metaphor’ from Jonson ‘the poet of metonymy for whom listing not yoking is at the core of his ethical vision’.
- The metonymic process depends on the substitution, in a sequence, of a series of metonymies for the novel's totalizing metaphor, with each metonymy representing a repetition of the novel's metaphor.
- He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus.
- There is a typology of rhetorical figures of speech made up of four tropes, they in turn govern the way we operate language: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
- If metaphor established a Burkean epistemology (perspectival knowledge), metonymy establishes language as the foundation of that epistemology.
- What one misses in the discussion of divination as metaphor, metonymy, semantic privilege, and etiological discourse is how it relates to real individuals and specific occasions where actual ritual implements are utilized.
- The cool universe of digitality has absorbed the world of metaphor and metonymy.
- Allegory cuts across metaphor and metonymy, the image is both fragment and performs a figurative function.
- These objects fueled a desire for knowledge and possession, although most often through the symbolic operations of metaphor and metonymy.
- I use the expression ‘all mouth and no trousers’ to introduce my sixth-formers to the distinction between synecdoche and metonymy.
- The piece foregrounds the poetic tension between metaphor and metonymy which, I have argued elsewhere, exist in each other.
- To do this, he mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world.
- In A Grammar of Motives he describes metonymy as a trope of reduction, that is, a term obliterates or erases certain specificities of an object or event to reduce it to a commonality.
- Like words, they signify things beyond themselves by means of linguistic devices such as metaphor and metonymy.
- Another characteristic of the semantics of slang is the tendency to name things indirectly and figuratively, especially through metaphor, metonymy, and irony.
Synonyms
simile, metaphor

Derivatives

metonymic

adjective mɛtəˈnɪmɪkˌmɛdəˈnɪmɪk

Until now, Burke has refused to let Ransom distinguish scientists from poets, for the metonymic nature of language constrains both parties.
Example sentencesExamples
- The living conditions in the military, of which the hospitals are a synecdoche, also evince this metonymic transformation.
- What's the role of convention in this area - do metonymic norms differ across languages or across genres, and does this matter?
- The costume made the man so that costume became the charged metonymic signifier of an interiority, a self, that was only produced in the first place by a uniform and the required props.
- Many standard items of vocabulary are metonymic.

metonymical

adjective mɛtəˈnɪmɪk(ə)l

Language is, according to Lacan, a metonymical chain of signifiers; meaning is always-already veiled from the viewer.
Example sentencesExamples
- At this point, however, Burke recognizes that the poet has a rhetorical aptitude that compensates for metonymical reduction with rhetorical inducement.
- But people get all excited about metaphorical and metonymical changes, missing the crucial point, that in such non - head like cases, things really aren't what they once were.
- The moment is doubly ironic, not just because Janie repeats the metonymical violence of the porch-sitters who comment on her dress and hair, but also because even her dress and hair could be said to not belong to her.
- There is a need, therefore, for animals used as farm background, similes, and metonymical suggestions.

metonymically

adverb mɛtəˈnɪmɪk(ə)liˌmɛdəˈnɪmɪk(ə)li

So the book itself stands, metonymically, as a potentially solid architectural edifice, like the Company store and Miss Whitlaw's Victorian house, both of which withstand the earthquake.
Example sentencesExamples
- The object doesn't necessarily have to be an activity, though an activity is usually implied metonymically.
- The narrator visits the second-hand clothing shops that line Monmouth Street in order to indulge in the pleasures of imagining the persons whom the cast-off pieces of clothing metonymically conjure up.
- Indeed, the paradoxical literacy work that occurs in writing conferences and writing centers represents metonymically the paradoxical work of higher education generally.
- Within a single discourse community, this is feasible: once people understand what the signs represent, they come to expect that a certain combination of textual gestures metonymically present an Other self on a printed page.

Origin

Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek metōnumia, literally 'change of name'.

Rhymes

agronomy, astronomy, autonomy, bonhomie, Deuteronomy, economy, gastronomy, heteronomy, physiognomy, taxonomy

Definition of metonymy in US English:

metonymy

nounməˈtänəmēməˈtɑnəmi

The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.
Example sentencesExamples
- In A Grammar of Motives he describes metonymy as a trope of reduction, that is, a term obliterates or erases certain specificities of an object or event to reduce it to a commonality.
- These strong probabilities are structured according to our notions of the way the world works-notions that arc mediated by cognitive tools such as narrative, metaphor, and metonymy.
- Allegory cuts across metaphor and metonymy, the image is both fragment and performs a figurative function.
- Although Burke's conventional definition of synecdoche (a part for the whole) sounds strikingly similar to metonymy, it functions for him as a corrective to metonymical excess.
- To do this, he mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world.
- I use the expression ‘all mouth and no trousers’ to introduce my sixth-formers to the distinction between synecdoche and metonymy.
- Shortly before this he distinguishes Donne ‘the master of metaphor’ from Jonson ‘the poet of metonymy for whom listing not yoking is at the core of his ethical vision’.
- Traditional and cognitive rhetorics differ most markedly in their approach to metaphor, metonymy, and other figures.
- The piece foregrounds the poetic tension between metaphor and metonymy which, I have argued elsewhere, exist in each other.
- But at least as many clues can be found in a culture's use of metaphor and metonymy based on X to name other things, its words from X.
- The cool universe of digitality has absorbed the world of metaphor and metonymy.
- What one misses in the discussion of divination as metaphor, metonymy, semantic privilege, and etiological discourse is how it relates to real individuals and specific occasions where actual ritual implements are utilized.
- There is a typology of rhetorical figures of speech made up of four tropes, they in turn govern the way we operate language: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
- The metonymic process depends on the substitution, in a sequence, of a series of metonymies for the novel's totalizing metaphor, with each metonymy representing a repetition of the novel's metaphor.
- If metaphor established a Burkean epistemology (perspectival knowledge), metonymy establishes language as the foundation of that epistemology.
- These objects fueled a desire for knowledge and possession, although most often through the symbolic operations of metaphor and metonymy.
- In the one there was much talk of the unconscious, of the underlying grammar of myths, of metaphor and metonymy, contradictions, resolutions, transformations and obviations.
- He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus.
- Like words, they signify things beyond themselves by means of linguistic devices such as metaphor and metonymy.
- Another characteristic of the semantics of slang is the tendency to name things indirectly and figuratively, especially through metaphor, metonymy, and irony.
Synonyms
simile, metaphor

Origin

Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek metōnumia, literally ‘change of name’.

单词	metonymy
释义	Definition of metonymy in English: metonymy nounPlural metonymies mɪˈtɒnɪmiməˈtɑnəmi mass noun The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the turf for horse racing. Example sentencesExamples In the one there was much talk of the unconscious, of the underlying grammar of myths, of metaphor and metonymy, contradictions, resolutions, transformations and obviations. But at least as many clues can be found in a culture's use of metaphor and metonymy based on X to name other things, its words from X. These strong probabilities are structured according to our notions of the way the world works-notions that arc mediated by cognitive tools such as narrative, metaphor, and metonymy. Although Burke's conventional definition of synecdoche (a part for the whole) sounds strikingly similar to metonymy, it functions for him as a corrective to metonymical excess. Traditional and cognitive rhetorics differ most markedly in their approach to metaphor, metonymy, and other figures. Shortly before this he distinguishes Donne ‘the master of metaphor’ from Jonson ‘the poet of metonymy for whom listing not yoking is at the core of his ethical vision’. The metonymic process depends on the substitution, in a sequence, of a series of metonymies for the novel's totalizing metaphor, with each metonymy representing a repetition of the novel's metaphor. He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus. There is a typology of rhetorical figures of speech made up of four tropes, they in turn govern the way we operate language: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. If metaphor established a Burkean epistemology (perspectival knowledge), metonymy establishes language as the foundation of that epistemology. What one misses in the discussion of divination as metaphor, metonymy, semantic privilege, and etiological discourse is how it relates to real individuals and specific occasions where actual ritual implements are utilized. The cool universe of digitality has absorbed the world of metaphor and metonymy. Allegory cuts across metaphor and metonymy, the image is both fragment and performs a figurative function. These objects fueled a desire for knowledge and possession, although most often through the symbolic operations of metaphor and metonymy. I use the expression ‘all mouth and no trousers’ to introduce my sixth-formers to the distinction between synecdoche and metonymy. The piece foregrounds the poetic tension between metaphor and metonymy which, I have argued elsewhere, exist in each other. To do this, he mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world. In A Grammar of Motives he describes metonymy as a trope of reduction, that is, a term obliterates or erases certain specificities of an object or event to reduce it to a commonality. Like words, they signify things beyond themselves by means of linguistic devices such as metaphor and metonymy. Another characteristic of the semantics of slang is the tendency to name things indirectly and figuratively, especially through metaphor, metonymy, and irony. Synonyms simile, metaphor Derivatives metonymic adjective mɛtəˈnɪmɪkˌmɛdəˈnɪmɪk Until now, Burke has refused to let Ransom distinguish scientists from poets, for the metonymic nature of language constrains both parties. Example sentencesExamples The living conditions in the military, of which the hospitals are a synecdoche, also evince this metonymic transformation. What's the role of convention in this area - do metonymic norms differ across languages or across genres, and does this matter? The costume made the man so that costume became the charged metonymic signifier of an interiority, a self, that was only produced in the first place by a uniform and the required props. Many standard items of vocabulary are metonymic. metonymical adjective mɛtəˈnɪmɪk(ə)l Language is, according to Lacan, a metonymical chain of signifiers; meaning is always-already veiled from the viewer. Example sentencesExamples At this point, however, Burke recognizes that the poet has a rhetorical aptitude that compensates for metonymical reduction with rhetorical inducement. But people get all excited about metaphorical and metonymical changes, missing the crucial point, that in such non - head like cases, things really aren't what they once were. The moment is doubly ironic, not just because Janie repeats the metonymical violence of the porch-sitters who comment on her dress and hair, but also because even her dress and hair could be said to not belong to her. There is a need, therefore, for animals used as farm background, similes, and metonymical suggestions. metonymically adverb mɛtəˈnɪmɪk(ə)liˌmɛdəˈnɪmɪk(ə)li So the book itself stands, metonymically, as a potentially solid architectural edifice, like the Company store and Miss Whitlaw's Victorian house, both of which withstand the earthquake. Example sentencesExamples The object doesn't necessarily have to be an activity, though an activity is usually implied metonymically. The narrator visits the second-hand clothing shops that line Monmouth Street in order to indulge in the pleasures of imagining the persons whom the cast-off pieces of clothing metonymically conjure up. Indeed, the paradoxical literacy work that occurs in writing conferences and writing centers represents metonymically the paradoxical work of higher education generally. Within a single discourse community, this is feasible: once people understand what the signs represent, they come to expect that a certain combination of textual gestures metonymically present an Other self on a printed page. Origin Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek metōnumia, literally 'change of name'. Rhymes agronomy, astronomy, autonomy, bonhomie, Deuteronomy, economy, gastronomy, heteronomy, physiognomy, taxonomy Definition of metonymy in US English: metonymy nounməˈtänəmēməˈtɑnəmi The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. Example sentencesExamples In A Grammar of Motives he describes metonymy as a trope of reduction, that is, a term obliterates or erases certain specificities of an object or event to reduce it to a commonality. These strong probabilities are structured according to our notions of the way the world works-notions that arc mediated by cognitive tools such as narrative, metaphor, and metonymy. Allegory cuts across metaphor and metonymy, the image is both fragment and performs a figurative function. Although Burke's conventional definition of synecdoche (a part for the whole) sounds strikingly similar to metonymy, it functions for him as a corrective to metonymical excess. To do this, he mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world. I use the expression ‘all mouth and no trousers’ to introduce my sixth-formers to the distinction between synecdoche and metonymy. Shortly before this he distinguishes Donne ‘the master of metaphor’ from Jonson ‘the poet of metonymy for whom listing not yoking is at the core of his ethical vision’. Traditional and cognitive rhetorics differ most markedly in their approach to metaphor, metonymy, and other figures. The piece foregrounds the poetic tension between metaphor and metonymy which, I have argued elsewhere, exist in each other. But at least as many clues can be found in a culture's use of metaphor and metonymy based on X to name other things, its words from X. The cool universe of digitality has absorbed the world of metaphor and metonymy. What one misses in the discussion of divination as metaphor, metonymy, semantic privilege, and etiological discourse is how it relates to real individuals and specific occasions where actual ritual implements are utilized. There is a typology of rhetorical figures of speech made up of four tropes, they in turn govern the way we operate language: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. The metonymic process depends on the substitution, in a sequence, of a series of metonymies for the novel's totalizing metaphor, with each metonymy representing a repetition of the novel's metaphor. If metaphor established a Burkean epistemology (perspectival knowledge), metonymy establishes language as the foundation of that epistemology. These objects fueled a desire for knowledge and possession, although most often through the symbolic operations of metaphor and metonymy. In the one there was much talk of the unconscious, of the underlying grammar of myths, of metaphor and metonymy, contradictions, resolutions, transformations and obviations. He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus. Like words, they signify things beyond themselves by means of linguistic devices such as metaphor and metonymy. Another characteristic of the semantics of slang is the tendency to name things indirectly and figuratively, especially through metaphor, metonymy, and irony. Synonyms simile, metaphor Origin Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek metōnumia, literally ‘change of name’.
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