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Synecdoche

speaker

Meaning

Noun

In Figures of speech:
A
that
the
of a part of
the whole, or the whole to
a part.
In Rhetoric:
The use of this
of speech.
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Origin

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συνεκδοχή
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
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