Category talk:Metonyms

Is this a meaningful category? A vast majority of words can act as a metonym. Metonymy can be predicated about a particular occurrence of a word in a sentence, but hardly about the word standing alone, isn't it? --Daniel Polansky 13:01, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * True. I think we had a discussion about this before (somewhere).  We came to much the same conclusion.  Almost any noun can be used as a metonym: "A sad face appeared in the window." or "The front desk will assist you.", so metonymy does not make a useful category. --EncycloPetey 16:24, 2 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment. There are some words that are so frequently used metonymically that it makes sense to include metonymic senses for them; crown: is a good example of this, as in or . It might make sense to tag such senses, and if we do, it might make sense to categorize their entries. —Ruakh TALK 20:59, 3 July 2008 (UTC)


 * We can already do this using . --EncycloPetey 19:19, 5 July 2008 (UTC)


 * But that doesn't put it in any category. Using "what links here" on the template yields a list of entries that includes many types of "figuratives", not just metonymy. We would need a more specific context qualifier. We could call it, say,.
 * To me the problem with the category is that it operates at the level of the entry, but concerns something that only makes sense at the definition level. This then requires some searching to find within Language, Ety, and PoS the definition(s) that actually demonstrated the metonymy. A context tag would at least mean that a user wouldn't have to actually read all the definitions to figure out what definition was the metonym. If we are going to rely on this method for normal users to actually find something, we would have to make the whole process a bit better documented.


 * Keep until replaced, that is, until is created and each entry in the category has been inspected for placement of the metonym tag. DCDuring TALK 20:18, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Deleted as it is, after depopulating stumps and City from the category. --Jackofclubs 19:21, 22 June 2009 (UTC)