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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD METONYMY

From Late Latin from Greek: a changing of name, from meta- (indicating change) + onoma name.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF METONYMY

metonymy  [mɪˈtɒnɪmɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF METONYMY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Metonymy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES METONYMY 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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH METONYMY


antonymy
ænˈtɒnɪmɪ
archenemy
ˈɑːtʃˈɛnɪmɪ
caconymy
kəˈkɒnɪmɪ
eponymy
ɪˈpɒnɪmɪ
homonymy
hɒˈmɒnɪmɪ
hypernymy
ˈhaɪpəˌnɪmɪ
hyponymy
haɪˈpɒnɪmɪ
meronymy
mɛrˈɒnɪmɪ
paronymy
pəˈrɒnɪmɪ
polyonymy
ˌpɒlɪˈɒnɪmɪ
synonymy
sɪˈnɒnɪmɪ
tautonymy
tɔːˈtɒnɪmɪ
teknonymy
tɛkˈnɒnɪmɪ
toponymy
təˈpɒnɪmɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE METONYMY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE METONYMY

academy
anatomy
army
astronomy
creamy
domy
dummy
economy
Emmy
enemy
filmy
Grammy
mommy
my
stymy
tammy
taxonomy
thymy
tommy
yummy

Synonyms and antonyms of metonymy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «metonymy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF METONYMY

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

Translator English - Chinese

转喻
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

metonimia
570 millions of speakers

English

metonymy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लक्षणालंकार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكناية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

метонимия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

metonímia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লক্ষণা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

métonymie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Metonymy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Metonymie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

換喩
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

환유
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Metonymy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phép hoán dụ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆகுபெயர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मेटोनीमी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kinaye
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

metonimia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

metonimia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

метонімія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

metonimie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μετωνυμία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

metonimie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

metonymy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

metonymy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of metonymy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «METONYMY»

The term «metonymy» is regularly used and occupies the 81.245 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «METONYMY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «metonymy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «metonymy» 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 metonymy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METONYMY»

Discover the use of metonymy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to metonymy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Metonymy in Language and Thought
The framework within which metonymy is understood in this volume is that of scenes, frames, scenarios, domains or idealized cognitive models. The chapters are revised papers given at the Metonymy Workshop held in Hamburg, 1996.
Klaus-Uwe Panther, Günter Radden, 1999
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Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads: A Cognitive Perspective
This collection of articles investigates in great detail a number of metaphorically and/or metonymically structured conceptual and linguistic domains.
Antonio Barcelona, 2003
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Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a ...
Can metonymy be considered a mapping? How can it be distinguished from active zones or facets ? Is it a prototype category? The ten contributions of the present volume address such core issues on the basis of the latest research results.
Antonio Barcelona, Réka Benczes, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, 2011
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Corpus-based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy
The papers in this volume deal with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings.
Anatol Stefanowitsch, Stefan Thomas Gries, 2007
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Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast
The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many brilliant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes.
René Dirven, Ralf Pörings, 2003
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Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar
The present volume goes even beyond this insight to propose that grammar itself is metonymical in nature (Langacker) and that conceptual metonymy and metaphor leave their imprints on lexicogrammatical structure.
Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, Antonio Barcelona, 2009
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Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy: ...
This book contrasts with most other critical approaches to experientialism by providing close readings of key passages from the works of Lakoff and Johnson, which enables the author to pinpoint theory-internal inconsistencies and other ...
Verena Haser, 2005
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Metonymy and Drama: Essays on Language and Dramatic Strategy
Based on various models of metonymy, this book distinguishes metonymic drama structure from the metaphoric, symbolic, and allegorical.
Jutka Dévényi, 1996
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Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing
The thoroughly revised chapters in the present volume originated as presentations in a workshop organized by the editors for the "7th International Pragmatics Conference" held in Budapest in 2000.
Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, 2003
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Metaphor and Metonymy: A Diachronic Approach
This book explores the motivation for some of the lexemes in this semantic field across the history of the English language, considering the range of cognitive mechanisms and cultural factors that can inform metaphorical and metonymical ...
Kathryn Allan, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METONYMY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term metonymy is used in the context of the following news items.
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How Quirky is Berkeley? The fence of doors on Ashby Ave
And no, I don't think the metonymy works very well in general and certainly not in the present case. Guest. OOH! Look at all the lead paint! guest. «Berkeleyside, Jul 15»
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“It's Time That Writing Took Something Back From the Internet”
JC: Metaphors, similes, puns—all manner of metonymy—I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine—language that can ... «The New Republic, Jul 15»
3
Remembering the Life and Work of Jackie Brookner, Creator of …
Throughout her career there has been a metonymy between material and concept: in her later work more specifically she drew analogies ... «Metropolis Magazine, Jul 15»
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César Ordóñez : Ashimoto
Metonymy as a visual language. Intimacy as a leitmotiv. In this series of photographs of female feet and legs, César Ordóñez has deliberately ... «The Eye of Photography, Jul 15»
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The Weekly Slam: Why the world has effectively written off TNA
... TNA also does not have the WWE's monopoly or its place in pop culture as a living, breathing metonymy for professional wrestling as a whole ... «Cageside Seats, Jun 15»
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Thea's Tarot cards
A new café is coming to Petite-Patrie — les Oubliettes invites the public for a soft opening soirée. 6201 St-Vallier, 5–9 p.m., free. Metonymy ... «Cult MTL, Jun 15»
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The Arab High-Tech exchange, part 1: Arabs in Israel's 'Start-Up …
... and I wanted to use the high-tech sector as the metonymy to explain it to the reader. In many senses, I felt that asking what Arabs' allegiances ... «Jewish Journal, May 15»
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Weather Report: Hito Steyerl's Documentary Forecast for the Digital …
Not unlike Steyerl's other films, “Liquidity” relies heavily on punning, metonymy, and playing shifting meanings off each other, blowing open the ... «Hyperallergic, May 15»
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French-Argentine Artist-Designer Pablo Reinoso's Sculptures …
Early on, Reinoso worked principally with wood, slate, marble, brass and steel, concentrating on articulation and metonymy, space and time. «Forbes, May 15»
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Hue and cry over Mac & Cheese spurring Kraft to remove dyes
“In her book and on her blog, Hari plays this game of malicious metonymy again and again, leveraging common motifs of disgust, such as ... «Dallas Morning News, Apr 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Metonymy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/metonymy>. Apr 2024 ».
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