Noun · pronounced meh-TON-uh-mee
What it means:
Metonymy replaces the name of a thing with the name of something closely associated with it.
"The White House issued a statement" is metonymy; the building said nothing, the people inside it did.
Metonymy
Naming a thing by something closely tied to it.
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