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How to pronounce “metonymy”
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Pronunciation guide for metonymy
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of metonymy with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Fire & Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking
became itself a metonym, a metonymy for sandwich.
- Definition summary
- (rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.
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How to pronounce metonymy
Fire & Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking
became itself a metonym, a metonymy for sandwich.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “metonymy”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.
- (countable) A metonym.
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