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Transferredepithet vs Metonymy - What's the difference?

transferredepithet | metonymy |

Transferredepithet is likely misspelled.


Transferredepithet has no English definition.

As a noun metonymy is

the use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object.

transferredepithet

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Transferredepithet has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'transferredepithet':

transcendentalist

metonymy

Noun

  • The use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object.
  • (countable) A metonym.
  • {{examples-right, caption=metonymy , examples=*The White House released its official report today. — "The White House" for "The presidential administration"
    * The Crown has enacted a new social security policy. — "The Crown" for "The government of the United Kingdom".
    * A crowd of fifty heads — where "head" stands for person.
    * Put it on the plastic — material (plastic) for object (credit card), width=60%}}

    Coordinate terms

    * metaphor

    Hypernyms

    * trope, figure of speech

    Hyponyms

    * synecdoche, synecdochy

    Derived terms

    * metonymous * metonym * metonymic

    See also

    * ("metonymy" on Wikipedia) * metalepsis *