metonymic
- s using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated
to say `he spent the evening reading Shakespeare' is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works
- But the Democrats are making their comeback on K Street, the metonymic home of Washington's $2.
- I swear I came up with that without reading Swampland (sorry, Ana), but in the interest of avoiding metaphoric repetition (or is it metonymic, or something else entirely?), I have .