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metonym
noun
(met-o-nym)
a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing
Examples:
Washington is a metonym for the United States government.
Plastic is a metonym for credit card.
Words Related to
metonym
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metonymy
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synecdoche
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signifier
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abstract noun
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neologism
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dandyism
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objective correlative
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geist
,
commonplaces
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quiddity
,
fustiness
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bohemianism
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foppery
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deracination
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simpleness
,
nabokovian
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sovietism
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hifalutin
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archaism
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brutalism
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orientalism
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cosmopolite
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mythologise
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blanding
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garrulousness
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wishfulness
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hybridity
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virtuousness
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nowness
,
neoconservativism
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excrescence
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auteurism
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res publica
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hyperreality
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vulgarization
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solipsist
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reification
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westernism
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emersonian
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buncombe
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metafiction
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royalism
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evanescence
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quintessence
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cohering
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nostalgist
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intertextuality
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jacobinism
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journalese
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grandiloquence
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nebulousness
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attitudinizing
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forbearer
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ornateness
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cosmopolis
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hemingwayesque
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curiousness
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coinages
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excremental
,
purism
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bolshevism
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existentialist philosophy
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cogitations
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anglophilia
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liberalist
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mythmaker
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postfeminist
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folk etymology
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revenant
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onanism
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animality
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potemkin village
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pompousness
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apartness
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embattlement
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eponym
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judeophobia
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mishmashes
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portmanteau word
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negritude
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unnamable
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primitiveness
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doubleness
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begetter
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concupiscence
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apparitional
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fin de siecle
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noosphere
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postmodern
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malthusianism
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gallimaufry
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utopian socialism
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orotund
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desuetude
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panegyric
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palpability
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adolf loos
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stolidity
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impersonality
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everydayness
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metonym
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