0 a word or phrase in which a part of something is used to refer to the whole of it, for example "a pair of hands" for "a worker", or the whole of something is used to refer to a part, for example "the law" for "a police officer" -- 举隅，提喻
The term "church" should similarly be construed as a synecdoche for institutions of religious worship in general.
The city's tourist authorities are at pains to promote them as a feature of the town - perhaps a synecdoche for its now (largely illusory) liminal nature.
Indeed, synecdoche is sometimes considered a subclass of metonymy.
For what traditional songs might it be a synecdoche?
We believe that actually meeting families with such children can be a powerful antidote to synecdoche.
This process we can identify, at least poetically, as metonymy or synecdoche.
Some of their early work in the 1960s dealt with linguistically oriented topics such as polysemous language, and the nature of synecdoche and metaphor.
In these accounts, the factory product is a synecdoche for the entire empire-wide and subject-deep factory system.
