Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "metonymic" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF METONYMIC

metonymic  [ˌmetəˈnɪmɪk] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF METONYMIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Metonymic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES METONYMIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Metonymy

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by the name of something associated in meaning with that thing or concept. The words "metonymy" and "metonym" come from the Greek: μετωνυμία, metōnymía, "a change of name", from μετά, metá, "after, beyond" and -ωνυμία, -ōnymía, a suffix used to name figures of speech, from ὄνῠμα, ónyma or ὄνομα, ónoma, "name." For instance, "Hollywood" is used as a metonym for the U.S. film industry because of the fame and cultural identity of Hollywood, a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, as the historical center of film studios and film stars. The national capital is often used to represent the government of a country, such as "Westminster" for Parliament of the United Kingdom, "Ottawa" for Parliament of Canada, or "Washington" for United States government. Metonymy and related figures of speech are common in everyday talk and writing. Synecdoche and metalepsis are considered specific types of metonymy. Polysemy, multiple meanings of a single word or phrase, sometimes results from relations of metonymy.

Definition of metonymic in the English dictionary

The definition of metonymic in the dictionary is relating to or involving metonymy, or being a metonym.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH METONYMIC


acronymic
ˌækrəˈnɪmɪk
antonymic
ˌæntəˈnɪmɪk
bulimic
buːˈlɪmɪk
cyclothymic
ˌsaɪkləʊˈθaɪmɪk
dysthymic
dɪsˈθaɪmɪk
enzymic
ɛnˈzaɪmɪk
eponymic
ˌɛpəˈnɪmɪk
gimmick
ˈɡɪmɪk
Hieronymic
ˌhaɪərəˈnɪmɪk
homonymic
ˌhɒməˈnɪmɪk
matronymic
ˌmætrəˈnɪmɪk
metronymic
ˌmɛtrəˈnɪmɪk
mimic
ˈmɪmɪk
paronymic
ˌpærəˈnɪmɪk
patronymic
ˌpætrəˈnɪmɪk
polyonymic
ˌpɒlɪəˈnɪmɪk
synonymic
ˌsɪnəˈnɪmɪk
thymic
ˈθaɪmɪk
toponymic
ˌtɒpəˈnɪmɪk
zymic
ˈzaɪmɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE METONYMIC

meticulousness
metif
metoestrous
metoestrus
metol
Metonic cycle
metonym
metonymical
metonymically
metonymies
metonymy
metope
metopic
metopism
metopon
metoposcopic
metoposcopical
metoposcopist
metoposcopy
metopryl

WORDS THAT END LIKE METONYMIC

academic
atomic
autonomic
ceramic
comic
cosmic
dynamic
economic
epidemic
etymic
genomic
Islamic
isoenzymic
isozymic
mic
orgasmic
panoramic
schizothymic
systemic
tautonymic

Synonyms and antonyms of metonymic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «metonymic» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF METONYMIC

Find out the translation of metonymic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of metonymic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «metonymic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

转喻
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

metonímico
570 millions of speakers

English

metonymic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

metonymic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

metonymic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

метонимической
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

metonímica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

metonymic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

métonymique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Metonymic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

metonymisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

換喩
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

환유
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Metonymic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

metonymic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

metonymic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शल्यचिकित्सक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

metonymic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

metonimico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

metonimiczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

метонимической
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

metonimic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μετωνυμικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

metonimiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

metonymic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

metonymic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of metonymic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «METONYMIC»

The term «metonymic» is normally little used and occupies the 110.485 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Little used
49
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «metonymic» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of metonymic
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «metonymic».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «METONYMIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «metonymic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «metonymic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about metonymic

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METONYMIC»

Discover the use of metonymic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to metonymic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Metonymy in Language and Thought
I have suggested that several sources of evidence, ranging from work in linguistics to psycholinguistics, highlight the idea that people experience little difficulty thinking of, speaking of, and understanding metonymic language. At the same time, ...
Klaus-Uwe Panther, Günter Radden, 1999
2
Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast
The metaphoric and metonymic poles Roman Jakobson Abstract Roman Jakobson is probably the last homo universalis in the human sciences, who both developed a theory of the mind and applied it to a panoply of disciplines. Jakobson ...
René Dirven, Ralf Pörings, 2003
3
Concepts and Conceptual Development: Ecological and ...
For this reason, metonymic models play an important role in prototype theory. Let us look at them a bit more closely. In general, a metonymic model has the following characteristics: There is a "target" concept A to be understood for some  ...
Ulric Neisser, 1989
4
Understanding Tropes: At the Crossroads Between Pragmatics ...
Sequenced interaction metaphor-metonymy In order to address this section, we will have in mind the following patterns as discussed in section 3.2.3.2.1 above: ( a) Metonymic expansion of a metaphoric source. (b) Metonymic expansion of a ...
Javier Herrero Ruiz, 2009
5
Allegory Old and New: In Literature, the Fine Arts, Music ...
METAPHORIC AND METONYMIC ALLEGORY: RICOEUR, JAKOBSON, AND THE POETRY OF W. B. YEATS Elsewhere, I have pointed out that Paul Ricoeur denies symbolic effect to language situations where the original sense of an ...
M. Kronegger, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 1994
6
Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language ...
One such form is metonymy (pronounced me-ta-na-mee). Metonymy or metonymic expressions occur when a word that normally refers to one thing is used to refer to something else that bears a relationship to that word. An example will help ...
Matthew J. Traxler, 2011
7
Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing
M-inference(s) 15, 169, 171-174, 181-182,199 see also implicature(s), M- implicature(s) Manner Maxim see Maxim of Manner mapping 2,29-31,33-41,46- 47, 83-84,99,150,243,261 analogical 65, 76-77 conceptual 29-30 double metonymic ...
Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, 2003
8
Frames and Constructions in Metaphoric Language
Metonymic inferencing can produce semantic extensions that in certain re- spects resemble metaphoric language. Under some definitions of metaphor, the figurative expressions resulting from metonymic processes may even be considered a ...
Karen Sullivan, 2013
9
Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a ...
Well, metonymy has routinely been said to be a single mapping between a metonymic source and a metonymic target within a single domain (cf. Lakoff, 1987; Lakoff and Turner, 1989: 103; Taylor, 1989: 123f; Gibbs, 1994: 13). In other words ...
Antonio Barcelona, Réka Benczes, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, 2011
10
Windows to the Mind: Metaphor, Metonymy and Conceptual Blending
The method In order to assess the conventionality of metonymies, the proportion of metonymic meanings of selected lexemes was investigated with material from the British National Corpus (BNC). The idea behind this method is that the ...
Sandra Handl, Hans-Jörg Schmid, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METONYMIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term metonymic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Beverley Bie Brahic on Apollinaire
... the discipline of translation studies must cease to treat originals as sacred texts and liberate reader-writers to engage in lateral (metonymic, ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
Read Chris Thurman's Paper on “Poison”, by Henrietta Rose-Innes …
He aims to offer a “metonymic or allegorical reading of the focalising protagonist of 'Poison', Lynn, and her white identity”. Read the abstract:. «Books LIVE, Jul 15»
3
Vitreous Virtue
This tiny Finger Lakes town, nearly half of whose 11,000 inhabitants are employed by its metonymic manufacturer, should be proud of them, warts and all. «Metropolis Magazine, Jun 15»
4
Illinois Improbable: A Story of Upending Expectations
This seems to be a metonymic shorthand for the whole of Illinois. It is a place for small and tall, a land modest and grand at once, a state of ... «Jewish Journal, Jun 15»
5
Can art capture the trauma of the Hiroshima bombing?
One of those frames – depicting the sun, which functions like a nuclear reactor and becomes a metonymic image for the atomic bomb – and is ... «Haaretz, May 15»
6
One-Night Stand LA titillates, but leaves you wanting more
Accompanying the metonymic objects was a brochure entitled “Museum of the History of the Motel” that included quotes from Robert Venturi ... «Archinect, May 15»
7
Project Row Houses artists create a universal 'Self-Portrait'
But the profound aspect of "Sometimes the Metonymic Object Is an Absence" is the interaction DeFreitas invites: Visitors to the installation are ... «Houston Chronicle, May 15»
8
Beware the infectious beasts of 'The Blondes'
She's a Canadian working on her PhD in aesthetics in New York, reading about things like "an examination of the metonymic progression in ... «Los Angeles Times, May 15»
9
The Songwriters' Songwriter
But for fans of his wordplay, there was a metonymic moment, just a few songs in, when the band played, “Lord Knows.” Also on the new records ... «The New Yorker, Apr 15»
10
Election 2015: Meet your South West Surrey constituency candidates
She was part of the first class to graduate with a Phd in metonymic art at the University of Creative Arts, in Farnham. Dr Ryland sees the need ... «Get Surrey, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Metonymic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/metonymic>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z