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> Is there an english word for the practice of commonly refering to an entity by a subset of that entity? A metonymy. [edit: swolchok is right, it's a synecdo
by ned 16y ago
> Is there an english word for the practice of commonly refering to an entity by a subset of that entity?
A metonymy.
[edit: swolchok is right, it's a synecdoche]
- golwengaud 16y agoNot quite. Metonymy is calling something by the name of a related object. The most common use of metonymy is probably "the White House" for President Obama's (Bush's, Clinton's, etc.) administration. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy