synecdoche

• syndoche
• synechdoche

Borrowed from Latin synecdochē, from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ, “receiving together”).

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/, /sɪˈnɛk.doʊ.ki/

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synecdoche (countable and uncountable, plural synecdoches)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole.
   • 2002, Christopher Hitchens, "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic, Sep 2002:

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

   • 2017 May 17, Dorian Lynskey, “The 20-year-old black mirror that reflects the world today”, in BBC.com Culture‎:

     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.

2. (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech; synecdochy.

• (part for the whole): pars pro toto
• (whole for the part): totum pro parte

• metonymy

• docetism
• meronymy

• metaphor
• metonymy

From Latin synecdoche, from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ, “receiving together”).

• IPA^(key): /sinɛkˈdoːxə/

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synecdoche f (plural synecdoches, diminutive synecdochetje n)

1. (literature) synecdoche

• metonymia