Synecdoche

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole, the whole for a part, the species for the genus, the genus for the species, or the name of the material for the thing made, and similar.
  • n. The use of synecdoche; synecdochy.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In rhetoric, a figure or trope by which the whole of a thing is put for a part, or a part for the whole, as the genus for the species, or the species for the genus, etc.: as, for example, a fleet of ten sail (for ships); a master employing new hands (for workmen). Compare metonymy.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    figure    trope    image    figure of speech   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pars pro toto   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gerendis    adsensus    occultis    dubito    utebantur   
     
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