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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Metonymy \Me*ton"y*my\ (m[-e]*t[o^]n"[i^]*m[y^]; 277), n. [L.
     metonymia, Gr. metwnymi`a; meta`, indicating change +
     'o`nyma, for 'o`noma a name: cf. F. m['e]tonymie. See
     {Name}.] (Rhet.)
     A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests
     it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good


     provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a
     warm heart, that is, warm affections; a city dweller has no
     wheels, that is, no automobile.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  metonymy
       n : substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the
           name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')

















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