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Synecdoche

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(n.) A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Synecdoche'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/synecdoche.html. 1828.
 
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