noun
- a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (as “crown” in “lands belonging to the crown”)
Source:
“…when for the first time he saw two insects, two flies of some kind, long-legged water flies, a metonym you might say for the whole of summer…”
Smith, Ali.the accidental. New York: Random House, 2007: 61.
