Associations to the word «Metonymy»

Wiktionary

METONYMY, noun. The use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object.
METONYMY, noun. (countable) A metonym.

Dictionary definition

METONYMY, noun. Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads').

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn