metonymical

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective metonymical has 1 sense

  • metonymical(s = adj.all) metonymic - using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated; "to say `he spent the evening reading Shakespeare' is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works"
  • Derived forms noun metonym1, noun metonymy1

CIDE DICTIONARY

metonymicala. [See Metonymy.].
     Used by way of metonymy; using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated.  [1913 Webster]

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