英

[mə'tɒnəmi]

美

[mə'tɑːnəmi]

n.转喻

形容词:

metonymic

副词:

metonymically

名词复数:

metonymies
new

metonymy的英文翻译是什么意思，意思释义：

英英释义

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

metonymy的用法和例句：

例句

用作名词(n.)Tropes include metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, etc.
比喻用法包括隐喻、明喻、转喻、提喻等。

经典引文

'Stokes', the name of the inventor..has, by metonymy, come to mean the trench mortar gun itself.

出自：Athenaeum

metonymy的相关资料：

临近单词

metre
meticulous
metonymy words
metonymy/metaphor
Metonymy Rhetoric type
Metonymy and Indirect Speech Acts