métonyme

French, noun/me.tɔ.nim/

métonyme is a French masculine noun meaning “metonym” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dénomination dont le sens devient par extension celui de son hyperonyme ou méronyme”.

What does métonyme mean in English?

noun

1
masculinemetonym

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Dénomination dont le sens devient par extension celui de son hyperonyme ou méronyme.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of métonyme

métonymes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce métonyme?

/me.tɔ.nim/
\me.tɔ.nim\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to métonyme

metonym

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.