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SYNECDOCHE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("synecdoche" is a kind of...):
figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
Domain member usage:
fireside; hearth (home symbolized as a part of the fireplace)
face (a part of a person that is used to refer to a person)
Derivation:
synecdochic; synecdochical (using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it)
