huàn​yù

metonymy; metonym

  • created sense approved 换喻/換喻 · huàn​yù · metonymy; metonym — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    换喻 / 換喻

    huàn​yù

    metonymy; metonym

    a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with it, or a word used in this way

    换 (literal) → 换/換 · huàn · to exchange 喻 (bound) → 喻 · yù · analogy

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense