Category:English metonyms

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. trash
  2. Bukit Aman
  3. Houston
  4. chainfall
  5. Silicon Valley
  6. Mother Russia
  7. stage
  8. rhinitis
  9. coryza
  10. catarrh
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. head
  2. pound
  3. Germany
  4. drink
  5. world
  6. Cayman Islands
  7. earth
  8. room
  9. face
  10. New Delhi

English terms whose origin involves calling a thing or concept not by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.

For more information, see Appendix:English metonyms.