synecdoche

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English

WOTD – 26 September 2006
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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) synecdoche, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ).

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Noun

synecdoche (plural synecdoches) Template:examples-right

  1. (deprecated template usage) (rhetoric) A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole, the whole for a part, the species for the genus, the genus for the species, or the name of the material for the thing made, and similar.
    • 2002, Christopher Hitchens, "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic, Sep 2002:
      "Holocaust" can become a tired syndecdoche for war crimes in general.
  2. (deprecated template usage) (rhetoric) The use of synecdoche; synecdochy.

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Pronunciation

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) synecdoche, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ).

Noun

synecdoche f (plural synecdoches, diminutive synecdochetje n)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (literature) synecdoche

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