Crossword-Solution: SYNECDOCHE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Synecdoche | 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. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “SYNECDOCHE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." | 1 answer |
| CHASING SKIRTS | 1 answer |
| Use of "Midas" for "wealthy person," e.g. | 1 answer |
| part of a sentence describes the entirety | 1 answer |
| substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa | 1 answer |
| Figure of speech | 23 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SYNECDOCHE (5)
Alwyn could now no longer bind himself down to machine-made synecdoche, antithesis, and climax, being full of spontaneous specimens of all these rhetorical forms, which he dared not utter.
Another Trope is named Synecdoche, called from this reason; that from what is properly meant, another of the like kind is understood.
Hesden had only wondered what the effect of these things would be upon "the South;" meaning by "the South" that regnant class to which his family belonged--a part of which, by a queer synecdoche, stood for the whole.
Besides, the custom of speech is well known that by the same word we sometimes comprehend by synecdoche the cause and effects.
Krapf, derived its name from the Ad Ali, a tribe of the Afar or Danakil nation, erroneously used by Arab synecdoche for the whole race.
Quotes with SYNECDOCHE (2)
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1958–2003).