Usually means: Substituting name by associated concept.
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  1. metonymically: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. metonymically: Collins English Dictionary
  3. metonymically: Vocabulary.com
  4. metonymically: Wordnik
  5. metonymically: Wiktionary
  6. metonymically: Dictionary.com
  7. metonymically: Rhymezone
  8. metonymically: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. metonymically: FreeDictionary.org
  10. metonymically: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. metonymically: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. metonymically: Encyclopedia

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  1. metonymically: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metonymically)

▸ adverb:  In a metonymic fashion; using metonymy.

Similar:
metonymously, synonymically, hyponymically, metaphrastically, eponymically, hyponymously, paronymously, synecdochically, anaphorically, synonymously, more...

Opposite:
synecdochically, literally, directly

Types:
"kind of" a place, more...

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Similar:
metonymously, synonymically, hyponymically, metaphrastically, eponymically, hyponymously, paronymously, synecdochically, anaphorically, synonymously, more...

Opposite:
synecdochically, literally, directly

Types:
"kind of" a place, more...



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