| Pronunciation: | | `sinik'dâkik
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[adj] using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it; "to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech" |
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SYNECDOCHIC is a 11 letter word that starts with S. |
| | Synonyms: | | figurative, nonliteral, synecdochical |
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