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Associations to the word «Synecdoche»

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Wiktionary

SYNECDOCHE, noun. (figure of speech) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole.

SYNECDOCHE, noun. (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech; synecdochy.

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SYNECDOCHE, noun. Substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa.

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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

Aeschylus