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Is a country's name a metonym - and when? E.g.: "The White House" / "Washington" / ..."The U.S.?"

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Would 'Google' be a synecdoche or a metonymy of the internet and technology?

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The “open-ended Irish backstop” (Brexit)

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Origins of “head” as a synecdoche?

"The England ... team" vs "The English ... team"

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What is the grammatical term for the following idiom?

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What do you call the collective singular as a rhetorical device? (e.g. 'the Hun')

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"He rolled his toilet things into his housewife"

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What is the opposite of synecdoche?

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Is there a term for referring to an organization by its city rather than by its name?

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What is the difference between metonymy and synecdoche?

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