Concept

Metonymy

Overview

figure of speech where a thing or concept is referred to indirectly by the name of something closely associated with it

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Philosophers who discussed Metonymy

• Loren Eiseley

Related ideas

• Analogy
• Macmillan Publishers
• Washington, D.C.
• Holy See
• Hebrew language
• Vice
• Italy
• Japan
• Journalism
• Beijing
• Moscow
• Metaphor
• Irony
• Ottoman Empire
• Poetry
• Paris
• President of the United States
• Government of the United Kingdom
• Russia
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• Rhetoric
• Rome
• Roman Jakobson
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Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophy of language.

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