synecdoche

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Editorial note

It's pretty common to use the main airport name as a synecdoche referring to the city.

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Quick take

substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa

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noun

substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for synecdoche.

noun

substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa

Example sentences

It's pretty common to use the main airport name as a synecdoche referring to the city.

In my post--and I assume others' posts as well--I used Linux as a synecdoche for Free Software.

When people say "the crown" when referencing a monarch and their administration, that's a textbook synecdoche.

I took it as a synecdoche, the cardboard box itself is obviously not very significant.

Here's the real meta/synecdoche subtext:>oh, Jesus, I once had dreams of being a Pulitzer-winning series about Congo.

" It is not productive to issue a correction every time you encounter synecdoche.

Admittedly a synecdoche for lots of other things, like scalability, code quality, test coverage, &c

Perhaps its use has become cliche, but using a well-worn textbook example of a synecdoche isn't exactly sloppy and to describe it as such is ignorant.

I would regard the latter as just a synecdoche, using the name of the most well-known realization of that general concept to stand for all of the realizations of that concept.

It can be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it, as in idiom, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, or synecdoche.