Synecdoche

Quick meaning: Synecdoche is a noun meaning (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech.

Meaning

(rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech.

More Meanings

1. (rhetoric) 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.

Example Sentences

"Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general.

Synecdoche the whole for part will take, Or part for whole, just for the metre's sake.

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.

Word Forms

• synecdoches
• syndoche
• synechdoche

Synonyms for synecdoche

Depending on context, synonyms include synecdochy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include synechdoche, syndoche, synecdochy, synecdochism, periphrasis, antonomasia.

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