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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
metonymical is an adjective meaning "using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for metonymical come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.