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

1 sense of zeugma

Sense 1
zeugma -- (use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one; "`Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma")
       => trope, figure of speech, figure, image -- (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)

2025, Cloud WordNet Browser