Of or pertaining to Meton of Athens.

Abbreviation of metonymy.

(astronomy, calendar studies) A particular approximate common multiple of the tropical year and the synodic month; in other words, the 19-year period over which the lunar phases occur on the same dates.

plural of Metonic cycle

(rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object. / (countable) A metonym.

Misspelling of metonymy.

plural of metonymy

(grammar) A word that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object; a word used in metonymy.

Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.

a metonym