Words similar to metonymy

Example sentences for: metonymy

How can you use “metonymy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Women's language is often metonymy for women's literary style.
But while the silk hat no longer invokes uptown swells, no other headgear has replaced it in our metonymy.
“Address your remarks to the chair” illustrates metonymy, a figure of speech in which something is called by the name of something else associated with it.
Privy and closet are examples of euphemism by metonymy, which is the substitution of the name of an attribute of a thing for the thing itself: a toilet is a private place, therefore a privy.
All these are feasible surmises by the process of metonymy.