Usually means: Substitution of name for association.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word metonymy:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. metonymy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. metonymy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metonymy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. metonymy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. metonymy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Metonymy, metonymy: Wordnik
  7. metonymy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. metonymy: Wiktionary
  9. metonymy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. metonymy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. metonymy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Metonymy, metonymy: Dictionary.com
  13. metonymy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Metonymy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Metonymy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. metonymy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. metonymy: Rhymezone
  18. Metonymy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. metonymy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. metonymy: Free Dictionary
  21. metonymy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. metonymy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. metonymy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. metonymy: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  3. Metonymy: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  4. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  5. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Metonymy: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  7. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  8. METONYMY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Metonymy: Management Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metonymy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. metonymy: Medical dictionary

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

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See metonymic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.
noun:  (countable) A metonym.

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