syn|ec|do|che

syn|ec|do|che
syn|ec|do|che «sih NEHK duh kee», noun.
Rhetoric. a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part, the special for the general, or the general for the specialor the like. Examples: a factory employing 500 hands (persons); to eat of the tree (its fruit); a Solomon (wise man); a marble (a statue) on its pedestal.
[< Late Latin synecdoche < Greek synekdoch < synekdéchesthai supply a thought or word; take with (something else) < syn- with + ex- out + déchesthai to receive]

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