metonymic's Usage Examples:

Flute"s name, like that of the other mechanicals, is metonymical and derives from his craft: "Flute" references a church organ, an instrument.

City of London, which was part of the fortification"s bailey, hence the metonymic name.

[citation needed] Flute"s name, like that of the other mechanicals, is metonymical and derives from his craft: "Flute" references a church organ, an instrument.

In a metonymic sense, the "Chrysanthemum Throne" also refers rhetorically to the head of state and the institution of the Japanese monarchy itself.

large chunks of the Earth – including the city of Ottawa (a Canadian metonymical in-joke) – before the climactic final episode, televised on April 26.

"Dublin Castle" is used metonymically to describe British rule in Ireland.

Earth are destroyed — including Orlando, Florida; Ottawa (a Canadian metonymical in-joke);Tokyo, the Amazon Rainforest, and Holland, which the Lexx eats.

Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement.

A team"s roster of relief pitchers is also metonymically referred to as "the bullpen".

journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers.

name "Kremlin" means "fortress inside a city", and is often also used metonymically to refer to the government of the Russian Federation in a similar sense.

that either flibot, flyboat or vlieboot, the name for the vessel, had a metonymical influence on the fr-fl dissimilation in freebooter, the pre-existing.

socialists whose luxurious upper middle-class or "preppy" lifestyles, metonymically including consumption of champagne, are ostensibly in conflict with.

Synonyms:

nonliteral, metonymical, figurative,

Antonyms:

typo, nonrepresentational, unrhetorical, literal,