synecdoche

Meaning

1. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part, or a specific kind or instance to represent the general category, or the general category to represent a specific kind or instance, or the constituent material to represent the thing made from it.
2. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) The use of this figure of speech.

Synonyms

connotation

synecdochy

Translations

synecdoque

Synekdoche

synecdoche

συνεκδοχή

sineddoche

sinècdoque

sinécdoque

synecdoche

Sinedoque

sinédoque

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Sinédoque

-n

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin synecdochē, from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ, “receiving together”) from σύν (sún, “with”) + ἐκ (ek, “out of”) + δέχεσθαι (dékhesthai, “to accept”), this last element related to δοκέω (dokéō, “to think, suppose, seem”).