Definition of metonymy
English to English noun - substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
source: WordNet 3.0 - A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.
source: Webster 1913
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