Noun

(en noun)

(figure of speech) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole.

* 2002 , (Christopher Hitchens), "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic , Sep 2002:

"Holocaust" can become a tired syndecdoche for war crimes in general.

(rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech; synecdochy.

Noun

(uncountable) The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.

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, year= 1553 , year_published= 1909 , author= , (Desiderius Erasmus) , by= , title= Arte of Rhetorique , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6p0xbOGIz2MC&pg=PA173 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Clarendon Press , location= Oxford , editor= , volume= , page= , passage= A woorde making called of the Grecians Onomatapoia , is when wee make wordes of our owne minde, such as bee derived from the nature of things. }}

(countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".

(uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.