synecdoche
- n substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa
- Jonestown: the name of the commune is destined, like Watergate and Viet Nam, to pass into our vocabulary as a synecdoche, a symbol for something larger.
- It is now an earth-circling synecdoche.
- He claimed a grandeur, a synecdoche of self and nation ("La France, c'est moi"), which in another man would have seemed monstrously totalitarian, or at least extremely eccentric.