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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024syn•ec•do•che (si nek′də kē),USA pronunciation n. [Rhet.]- Rhetorica 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.
- Greek synekdoché̄, equivalent. to syn- syn- + ekdoché̄ act of receiving from another, equivalent. to ek- ec- + -dochē, noun, nominal derivative of déchesthai to receive
- Medieval Latin
- 1350–1400;
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