metonymic in English

adjective

['metə'nɪmɪk]

having the nature of metonymy, of or pertaining to the use of a related word to represent another word that it does not specifically denote (Rhetoric)

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1. This surname is a metonymic form of the surname HArberer, and is derived from the Old English word herebeorg, which means shelter or lodging.

2. This surname is a metonymic form of the surname HArberer, and is derived from the Old English word herebeorg, which means shelter or lodging.

3. 11 Based on the cognitive linguistic construal of metonymy, this paper analyzes and exemplifies the metonymic nature of discourse titles that takes on two senses.

4. 8 In cognitive linguistics, metonymy concepts are part of the ordinary, everyday way we think and act as well as talk, so we can apply metonymic thought to interpret anaphora in English texts.

5. 12 The interpretation of nominal tautology can be based on some concepts and theories in psychology and cognition, of which the most important are metonymic mapping, categorization and space mappings.

6. English and Scottish: metonymic occupational name for someone employed in the cellars of a great house or monastery, from Anglo-Norman French celler ‘cellar’ (Old French cellier), or a reduction of the Middle English agent derivative Cellerer.

7. Last name meaning Arber: Derived from the Old French pre 10th century word 'Herbergeor' and introduced by the Normans after the 1066 Invasion, this surname is a metonymic occupational name for a lodging house or inn-keeper, one who provided a 'safe harbour'

8. Moneybags or coffers are metonymic with wealth and avarice throughout Piers Plowman, such as in Thought's description of Dobet in Passus 8, where "the bagges and the bigirdles, he hath to broke hem alle / That the Erl Avarous heeld, and hise heires; / And with Mammonaes moneie he hath maad hym frendes" (8.88-90).

9. Last name meaning Armer: This interesting and unusual surname, recorded as Armor, Armour, Armer, Larmour and LArmer, is of early medieval English and Scottish origin, and is from a metonymic occupational name for a maker of arms and armour, from the Middle English (1200 - 1500), and the Old French "armure", from the Late Latin "armatura", a