Usually means: Part represents whole, or vice-versa.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word synecdoche:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. synecdoche: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. synecdoche: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. synecdoche: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. synecdoche: Collins English Dictionary
  5. synecdoche: Vocabulary.com
  6. Synecdoche, synecdoche: Wordnik
  7. synecdoche: Wiktionary
  8. synecdoche: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. synecdoche: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. synecdoche: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. synecdoche: Dictionary.com
  12. synecdoche: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Synecdoche (disambiguation), Synecdoche: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Synecdoche: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. synecdoche: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. synecdoche: Rhymezone
  17. Synecdoche: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. synecdoche: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. synecdoche: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. synecdoche: Free Dictionary
  21. synecdoche: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. synecdoche: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. synecdoche: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. synecdoche: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. synecdoche: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Synecdoche: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  3. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  4. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Synecdoche: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  6. SYNECDOCHE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. synecdoche: Encyclopedia

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

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

(Note: See synecdoches as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part.
noun:  (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech.

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