Definition of Metonymic

Adjective

  • using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated
    "to say `he spent the evening reading Shakespeare' is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works"
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Unscramble metonymic

202 unscramble word found using the letters metonymic.

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