“Bartús” is evidently formed “on the weight” of “Bartút;” and his metonym is a caricature, a chaff fit for Fellahe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Why Hitler is the metonym for evil but Stalin isn't.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confronting Soviet and Nazi History] Reference

In the text, Minerva functions as a metonym for the nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece] Reference

I mean, it became a metonym for the -- for the whole apparatus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Business of America] Reference

Downing Street is a metonym for the Prime Minister’s office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) Calls Out Cheney For Continuing To Push Faulty Intelligence] Reference

“Columbus Day” is just the metonym for “Discovery of America” day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Christopher Columbus — Hero or Villain?] Reference

The struggle over abortion, as indicated, stands as a metonym for unequal gender relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abortion: it's not about choice] Reference

Using the name of Plato as a metonym for other philosophers, he is critical of this approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judah Abrabanel] Reference

From 1961 to 1989 the wall had been a dividing line in, a symbol of, and a metonym for, the Cold War.    From Wordnik.com.  [1989-2009: Moving The Berlin Wall To Russia's Borders] Reference

Why Hitler is the metonym for evil but Stalin isn't? by Ludwik Kowalski on Friday, Nov 7, 2008 at 7: 39: 01 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confronting Soviet and Nazi History] Reference

( "India" here is a metonym for the middle class, and vice versa.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The opening is itself a metonym for Mr. Marten's narrative construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Observer -] Reference

He claimed that the elevator serves as a metonym for spaces that are institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [virtualpolitik] Reference

Nowhere in this poem is there any glimpse that the garden is a metonym of the female body.    From Wordnik.com.  [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference

In a particularly fanciful metonym, the Narragansetts referred to the Puritans as Wood-burners.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1] Reference

Ponsonby had named their home) that had become a cultural metonym for women in love.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes] Reference

What he describes is a metonym, not a metaphor.    From Wordnik.com.  [98 Reasons For Blogging: 7] Reference

4 bloggers you are tagging: Oh -- simplify; nycme; metonym; reddirtgirl.    From Wordnik.com.  [readersguide Diary Entry] Reference

Metanym (sp. metonym?) 14. b.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

Metanym (maybe metonym?) 14. b.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

Metanym (although it is spelled metonym) 14.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

Mark metonym.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reinventing The News Business Requires A Little Imagination - Publishing 2.0] Reference

A metonym for the model consort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

C - metonym.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

Stereotype or metonym.    From Wordnik.com.  [About.com Nonprofit Charitable Orgs] Reference

13 c. metonym.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

13.c. metonym.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

13 C - metonym.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

13. c (metonym) 14. b.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

13. c (metonym?) 14. b.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

13) c (metonym?) 14) b.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

13. c (I think you mean metonym) 14. c.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

13. c (isn't it spelled metonym though??) 14. b.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

B, d, d, a, c, c, b, c, c, c, b, b, c (metonym), b, a, d, d, a, pretty ugly, c.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

Actually, "Wall Street," like "The Pentagon" or "Hollywood" is a metonym, not a metaphor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wall Street Is Just a Metonym for Life] Reference