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We found 50 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word metonymy: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "metonymy" is defined. General (35 matching dictionaries) metonymy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] metonymy: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] metonymy: Vocabulary.com [home, info] metonymy: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] metonymy: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Metonymy, metonymy: Wordnik [home, info] metonymy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Metonymy: Wiktionary [home, info] metonymy: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [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: 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: UVic Writer's Guide [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] Business (1 matching dictionary) Metonymy: Management Dictionary [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) metonymy: Encyclopedia [home, info] Medicine (2 matching dictionaries) 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, metonymy: Postmodern Bible Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (metonymy) ▸ noun:  substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') ▸ Word origin