metonym
英 ['metənɪm] 美 ['metənɪm]

n.

换喻中所使用的词或短语；

英英释义

metonym[ 'metənim ]

• n.a word that is used metonymically; a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing

权威例句

The Metonym: Rhetoric and Oral Tradition at the Crossroads
Hormone therapy for inmates: a metonym for transgender rights
Penis envy: libidinal metaphor and experiential metonym
Suzanne Necker's Legacy: Breastfeeding as Metonym in Germaine de Stael's Delphine
Constructions of Female Selves in Adolescent Fiction: Makeovers as Metonym
The Persuasiveness of Smallwood: Rhetoric of Cuffer and Scoff, of Metonym and Metaphor
The ghriba on the Island of jerba or the reinvention of a shared shrine as a metonym for a multicultural Tunisia
Presuming Scale, Making DiversityOn the Mischiefs of Measurement and the Global: Local Metonym in Theories of Law and Culture
"The Ghost Remembers Only What It Wants To": Traumas of Girlhood as a Metonym for the Nation in the South Korean Whispering Corridor...
"The Ghost remembers only what it wants to": traumas of girlhood as a metonym for the nation in the South Korean Whispering Corrido...