We found 43 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word metonymy:
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 General (28 matching dictionaries)
- metonymy: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- metonymy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- metonymy: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- Metonymy: Wiktionary [home, info]
- metonymy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- metonymy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- metonymy: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- Metonymy, metonymy: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- metonymy: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- metonymy: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- Metonymy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Metonymy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- metonymy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- metonymy: Rhymezone [home, info]
- Metonymy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- metonymy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- metonymy: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
- metonymy: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
- Metonymy: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
- metonymy: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- metonymy: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
- metonymy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
- metonymy: Luciferous Logolepsy [home, info]
- metonymy: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- metonymy: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- metonymy: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- metonymy: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- metonymy: Worthless Word For The Day [home, info]
Art (8 matching dictionaries)
- metonymy: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]
- metonymy: Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric [home, info]
- Metonymy: Glossary of English Grammar Terms [home, info]
- Metonymy: Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples [home, info]
- metonymy: Linguistic Glossary [home, info]
- Metonymy: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices [home, info]
- metonymy: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]
- METONYMY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- metonymy: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
- metonymy: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
- metonymy: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- metonymy: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
- metonymy: A Word A Day [home, info]
- metonymy: Wordcraft Dictionary [home, info]
Religion (1 matching dictionary)
- metonymy: Postmodern Bible Dictionary [home, info]
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Quick definitions (metonymy)
▸ noun: substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
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