0 a word or expression that refers to something using the name of one of its qualities or features: --
There is nothing press-like about reporters or crown-like about a monarch, but the press and the crown are both common metonyms.
This list can not include all metonyms, but only some of those that are identified as common.
And going wider, synchronically, such a list is formally a kind of metonym and thus a trope based on contiguity of space, time, or other context.
Of course, since correspondence theorists recognize the use of metonymy, they might respond that the name is merely a metonym for the anticipated winners of the talent contest.
The sigh-like ascending chromatic figures and minute descending motives in minor that trace each of her steps and gestures are traditional acoustic metonyms of pain and suffering lament.
In both instances, the male working-class body becomes the metonym for national identity. 16.
Its name, as you may have guessed, is a metonym for the instrumentation - wind band.
Spending money to hire a capable and responsible carer is a metonym for the absent children's personal care.
