4 example sentences using metonymy.
Metonymy used in a sentence
Metonymy in a sentence as a noun
People do understand that 'Wall St' is just metonymy, right?
It has become a metonymy for a community of practice.
I'm pretty confused about how shuttle buses became the preferred metonymy for corporate evil.
> You would say that someone that does that is 'acting like Steve Jobs' though, no?Right, metonymy is a rhetorical device that can be used for figures such as _why, but that doesn't mean that the figure is [just] a metonymic structure and not a person.
Metonymy definitions
noun
substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')