• IPA: /sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/, /sɪˈnɛk.doʊ.ki/

synecdoche

1. (figure of speech) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part.

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   Hypernyms: metonymy

   • [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, OCLC 1062248511 ↗, page 9 ↗:

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

   • 2002, Christopher Hitchens, "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic, Sep 2002:

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

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

   Synonyms: synecdochy

• docetism
• meronymy

• French: synecdoque
• German: Synekdoche
• Italian: sineddoche
• Portuguese: sinédoque
• Russian: сине́кдоха
• Spanish: sinécdoque