metonymy

英 [mə'tɒnəmi] 美 [mə'tɑːnəmi]

• n. 转喻

英英释义

Noun:

1. substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Tropes include metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, etc.
   比喻用法包括隐喻、明喻、转喻、提喻等。

经典引文

• 'Stokes', the name of the inventor..has, by metonymy, come to mean the trench mortar gun itself.

  出自：Athenaeum