metonymically
adverb
metonymically is an adverb meaning “In a metonymic fashion; using metonymy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-T-O-N-Y-M-I-C-A-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does metonymically mean?
adverb
- 1
In a metonymic fashion; using metonymy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of metonymically
- more metonymically comparative
- most metonymically superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is metonymically?
Metonymically appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Metonymically in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | métonymiquement |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does metonymically come from?
From metonymic + -ally or metonymical + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).