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countable and uncountable, plural metonymies
(rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object. quotations examples
Metonymy does new names impose,And things for things by near relation shews.]
Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, page 7
...the principle of metonymy is simply to substitute for the plain name of a thing a name or phrase based on something connected with it.
1891 September, William Minto, “Practical talks on writing English”, in Theodor Flood, editor, The Chautauquan, volume 13, page 279
(countable) A metonym. examples