Metonymy (/mɪˈtɒnɪmi, mɛ-/) is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something associated with that thing or concept. For...

center for the advertising industry, which is metonymously called "Madison Avenue". Silicon Alley, metonymous for New York's broad-spectrum high technology...

South) and Third Avenue in order to service it. The street's name has been metonymous with the American advertising industry since the 1920s. Thus, the term...

lies in its role as the headquarters for the U.S. financial industry, metonymously known as Wall Street. Manhattan is home to the New York Stock Exchange...

heart of Nashville's entertainment industry, Music Row has also become a metonymous nickname for the music industry as a whole, particularly in country music...

central Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city, is also metonymous for the American filmmaking industry. The major film studios of the United...

The Flatiron District was the cradle of Silicon Alley, now metonymous for the New York metropolitan region's high tech sector, which has since expanded...

Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia, and is sometimes metonymously called "Langley". A major member of the United States Intelligence Community...

accountancy, insurance, and the arts in the United States; while Silicon Alley, metonymous for New York's high technology sphere, continues to expand. The Port of...

celebrities involved in the US film industry, as "Hollywood" is a common metonymous term for that industry; such marriages are more commonly known as supercouples...

lies in its role as the headquarters for the U.S. financial industry, metonymously known as Wall Street. Anchored by Wall Street, in the Financial District...

American Championship car racing. Since its inception, the Speedway has been metonymous within the sport. Many Indy car teams, suppliers, and constructors have...

HaMemshala (Hebrew: בית ראש הממשלה, lit. House of the prime minister) or metonymously as Balfour, is the official residence of the prime minister of Israel...

road". Figuratively, it signifies a (prescribed) way, mode, or manner. Metonymously, sect refers to a discipline or school of thought as defined by a set...

something like a province or county (cf. Guizhou), but often came to be used metonymously for the capital of such a region (cf. Guangzhou, Hangzhou, etc.). Suzhou...

narrative and location, Zephon (Hebrew: צפון, romanized: ṣap̄on) came to metonymously signify "north" in Hebrew. The name is, therefore, sometimes given in...

(notwithstanding his oft-publicized penchant for working in his bedroom's metonymous round rotating/vibrating bed). The Chicago Mansion also boasted a brass...

mean the cranium, the upper part of the skull, but it has been used metonymously since antiquity to refer to skulls and heads more generally.) The Fathers...

Cao Cao's time that exceeded his in scale, the Bronze Bird Terrace is metonymous with Cao Cao in Classical Chinese poetry, where the terrace is a popular...

jet there directly from Rome due to his enthusiasm for the chicken, metonymously Chicago. Harold's has been shown in a scene on the television show South...

usually left untranslated because there is no single English word for it. Metonymously, a "verrine" designates in the cooking world a dish served in a verrine...

used as a synonym for Wall Street, the latter term is often applied metonymously to the financial markets as a whole (and is also a street in the district)...

in the mill pond. It is ironic that the phrase "Smith Hill" is today metonymous with "Rhode Island government" because John Smith was not allowed to—or...

lexicographical research, he found such first uses as the sense of the metonymous use of the word "suit" to mean a bureaucrat which he found attributed...

circumstances. Contemporary anaesthetic machines are sometimes still referred to metonymously as "Boyle's machine", and are usually mounted on anti-static wheels for...

Ratchet and Clank franchise All For One (My Hero Academia), a Quirk (and metonymously named character) in the manga and anime series My Hero Academia One for...

its improbability ("miracle") and its location in Detroit, which is metonymously known as "Motown". Motown—which as a portmanteau of "motor" and "town"...

In the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest the institution is metonymously referenced several times as Pendleton, and it is implied that the character...