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metonymic

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective metonymic has 1 sense

  • metonymic(s = adj.all) metonymical - 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"
    • Derived form noun metonym1
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CIDE DICTIONARY
metonymic, a. [See Metonymy.].
     Used by way of metonymy; using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated.  [1913 Webster]
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