metonymy

Noun
  1. Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') (synset 107122361)
    associated with: voice - (metonymy) a singer
    is a type of: figure, figure of speech, image, trope - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
    subtypes: metalepsis - substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another

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