SYNECDOCHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does synecdoche mean? 

• SYNECDOCHE (noun)
  The noun SYNECDOCHE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SYNECDOCHE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYNECDOCHE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("synecdoche" is a kind of...):

figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)

Domain member usage:

fireside; hearth (home symbolized as a part of the fireplace)

face (a part of a person that is used to refer to a person)

Derivation:

synecdochic; synecdochical (using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it)