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English noun: metonymy | |||
| 1. | metonymy (communication) substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | figure, figure of speech, image, trope | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | metalepsis | ||
| Domain category members | voice | ||
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