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Word: synecdoche
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Noun:
- figure of speech A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole, the whole for a part, the species for the genus, the genus for the species, or the name of the material for the thing made, and similar.
- rhetoric The use of synecdoche; synecdochy.
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