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CIDE DICTIONARY

autonomasy

CIDE DICTIONARY

autonomasyn. [Auto- + Gr. a name, fr. a name; or for E. antonomasia.].
     The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, “He has gone to town,” for, “He has gone to London.”  [1913 Webster]

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