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synecdoche

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Noun

HYPHEN

syn=ec=do=che

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun synecdoche has 1 sense

synecdoche(n = noun.communication) - substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa;

Derived forms adjective synecdochic₁, adjective synecdochical₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

synecdoche, n. [L. synecdoche, Gr. synekdochh`, fr. to receive jointly; sy`n with + to receive; out + to receive.].

A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. Bain. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

synecdoche, n. a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa (e.g. new faces at the meeting; England lost by six wickets).

Derivative

synecdochic adj.

Etymology

ME f. L f. Gk sunekdokhe (as SYN-, ekdokhe f. ekdekhomai take up)

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ROGET THESAURUS

synecdoche

Metaphor

N metaphor, figure of speech, facon de parler, way of speaking, colloquialism, phrase, figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis, metonymy, synecdoche, autonomasia, irony, figurativeness, image, imagery, metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable, allusion, adumbration, application, exaggeration, hyperbole, association, association of ideas (analogy), metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical, ironical, colloquial, tropical, so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself, as it were, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.