1. SYNEC'DOCHE
2. SYNECDOCH'ICAL, adjective Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc.
Metaphor Roget’s Thesaurus §521
N. figure of speech, facon de parler, way # of speaking, colloquialism, phrase, figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis, metonymy, synecdoche, autonomasia|, irony, figurativeness, image, imagery, metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable, allusion, adumbration, application, exaggeration, hyperbole, association, association of ideas (analogy) 514a
Adj. metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical, ironical, colloquial, tropical
Adv. so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself, as it were
Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur
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