Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun metonym

1 sense of metonym

Sense 1
metonym -- (a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing; "Washington is a metonym for the United States government"; "plastic is a metonym for credit card")
       => word -- (a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning")