synecdoche
nounEtymology
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”).
- derived from συνεκδοχή
- borrowed from synecdochē
Definitions
A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or…
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.
- Synecdoche the whole for part will take, Or part for whole, just for the metre's sake.
- "Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general.
- Perhaps being in a touring band was, to Yorke, a synecdoche for the modern condition: disorientation, alienation, rootlessness, exhaustion, lack of control, occasional derangement, constant motion.
The use of this figure of speech.
The neighborhood
- neighbordocetism
- neighborholonymy
- neighbormeronymy
- neighbormetalepsis
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for synecdoche. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA