Usually means: Substitution of phrase for name.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. antonomasia: Merriam-Webster
  2. antonomasia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antonomasia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antonomasia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Antonomasia, antonomasia: Wordnik
  6. antonomasia: Wiktionary
  7. antonomasia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. antonomasia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. antonomasia: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Antonomasia, antonomasia: Dictionary.com
  11. Antonomasia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Antonomasia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. antonomasia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Antonomasia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. antonomasia: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. antonomasia: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. antonomasia: FreeDictionary.org
  18. antonomasia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. antonomasia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. antonomasia: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  3. ANTONOMASIA: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. antonomasia: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Antonomasia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Antonomasia: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. antonomasia: A Word A Day
  2. antonomasia: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (antonomasia)

noun:  (rhetoric) The substitution of an epithet or title in place of a proper noun.
noun:  (rhetoric) Use of a proper name to suggest its most obvious quality or aspect.

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