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Jane Austen
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction set among the gentry have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature. Amongst scholars and critics, Austen's realism and biting social commentary have cemented her historical importance as a writer.
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Annapolis, Maryland
Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the county seat of Anne Arundel County. It has a population of 36,524 (July 2008 est.), and is situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, south of Baltimore and about east of Washington, D.C. Annapolis is part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The city was the temporary capital of the United States in 1783–1784 and the site of the Annapolis Peace Conference, held in November 2007, at the United States Naval Academy. St. John's College is also in Annapolis.
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Australia
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Bay Street
Bay Street is a street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the centre of Toronto's financial district and is often used by metonymy to refer to Canada's financial industry just as Wall Street is used in the United States and The City in the United Kingdom. This is a rather recent development (1970s), as this position used to be held by St. James Street, in Montreal. Within the legal profession, the term Bay Street is also used colloquially to refer to the large, full-service business law firms of Toronto, particularly the top-tier law firms known as the Seven Sisters. The name of the street originated in 1797 from the fact that it connected (then) Lot Street (now Queen Street West) to a bay in Toronto Harbour. It was originally called Terauley Street (from Queen Street to Grenville Street) and renamed in the 1920s.
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Beijing
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Belgium
Belgium (, ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, as well as those of several other major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of , and it has a population of about 10.8 million people.
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Brussels
Brussels (, pronounced ; , pronounced ), officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region (, Dutch: ), is the de facto capital city of the European Union (EU) and the largest urban area in Belgium. It comprises 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels proper, which is the constitutional capital of Belgium, the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
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Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality. It has been a rallying point for the British people at times of national rejoicing and crisis.
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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Canberra
Canberra () is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne. A resident of Canberra is known as a "Canberran".
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City of Westminster
The City of Westminster () is a London borough occupying much of the central area of London, England, including most of the West End. It is located to the west of and adjoining the ancient City of London, directly to the east of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , and its southern boundary is the River Thames. It is an Inner London borough and was created in 1965 when Greater London was established. At its creation Westminster was awarded city status, which had been previously held by the smaller Metropolitan Borough of Westminster. Aside from a number of large parks and open spaces, the density of the district is high. Many sites thought of as being in London are actually in Westminster, including Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, and 10 Downing Street. The city is divided into a number of localities including the ancient political district of Westminster around the Palace of Westminster; the shopping areas around Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Bond Street; and the night time entertainment district of Soho. Much of the city is residential, and in 2008 it was estimated to have a population of 236,000. The local authority is Westminster City Council.
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Detroit
Detroit () is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwest region of the United States. Located north of Windsor, Ontario, Detroit is the only major U.S. city where Canada can be viewed by looking to the south. It was founded on July 24, 1701, by the Frenchman Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. Its name originates from the French word détroit () for strait, in reference to its location on the river connecting the Great Lakes.
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Downing Street
Downing Street is the street in London, England, United Kingdom, which for over two hundred years has contained the official residences of two of the most senior British cabinet ministers: the First Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the Second Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The most famous address in Downing Street is 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury—and thus, in modern times, the residence of the Prime Minister. Number 11 is likewise a term for the Chancellor of the Exchequer or his or her office.
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Fleet Street
Fleet Street is a street in London, England, named after the River Fleet, a London stream that now flows underground. It was the home of the British press until the 1980s. Even though the last major British news office, Reuters, left in 2005, the street's name continues to be used as a metonym for the British national press.
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Foggy Bottom
Foggy Bottom is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. The area is thought to have received the name because its riverside location made it susceptible to concentrations of fog and industrial smoke, an atmospheric trait that did not prevent the neighborhood from becoming the original location of the United States Naval Observatory. Foggy Bottom is west of downtown Washington, in the Northwest quadrant, bounded roughly by 17th Street to the east, Rock Creek Parkway to the west, Constitution Avenue to the south, and Pennsylvania Avenue to the north.
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Greater London
Greater London is the top-level administrative subdivision covering London, England, United Kingdom. The administrative area was officially created in 1965 and covers the City of London, including Middle Temple and Inner Temple, and the 32 London boroughs (including the City of Westminster). Its area also forms the London region of England and the London European Parliament constituency. The region has by far the highest GDP per capita in the United Kingdom. It covers 1572 km2 (607 square miles) and had a 2006 mid-year estimated population of 7,512,400. The term Greater London was in use before 1965 to refer to a variously defined area, larger than the County of London and often similar to the Metropolitan Police District.
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California - situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym of American cinema, and is often interchangeably used to refer to the greater Los Angeles area in general. The nicknames StarStruck Town and Tinseltown refer to Hollywood and its movie industry. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production, and lighting companies remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.
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Houston
Houston () is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city in the state of Texas. As of the 2009 U.S. Census estimate, the city had a population of 2.3 million within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of the metropolitan area—the metropolitan area in the U.S. with a population of approximately 5.9 million.
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Islamabad
(Punjabi, Pashto, {{lang-ur|) Islām ābād (Meaning "Abode of Islam") is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. The population of the city has increased from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.21 million in 2009. The Rawalpindi/Islamabad Metropolitan Area is the third largest in Pakistan with a population of over 4.5 million inhabitants.
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Langley, Virginia
Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (, , ), is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. Luxembourg has a population of over half a million people in an area of approximately 2,586 square kilometres (999 sq mi).
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Maryland
Maryland () is an American state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Maryland has the highest median household income of any state, with a median income of $70,545. Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, and three nicknames for it, the Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State are occasionally used.
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Michigan
Michigan () is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is a French corruption of the Ojibwe word mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake".
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system (OS) market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of OSs. The ensuing rise of stock in the company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated four billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Microsoft would come to dominate other markets as well, notably the office suite market with Microsoft Office.
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Moscow Kremlin
The Moscow Kremlin (Russian: Московский Кремль, Moskovskiy Kreml), sometimes referred to as simply The Kremlin, is a historic fortified complex at the heart of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River (to the south), Saint Basil's Cathedral and Red Square (to the east) and the Alexander Garden (to the west). It is the best known of kremlins (Russian citadels) and includes four palaces, four cathedrals and the enclosing Kremlin Wall with Kremlin towers. The complex serves as the official residence of the President of Russia.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, ) is an Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research. Since February 2006, NASA's self-described mission statement is to "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research."
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Ottawa
Ottawa ( or ) is the capital of Canada, a municipality and the second largest city within the province of Ontario. Located in the Ottawa Valley, in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario, the city lies on the Ottawa River, a major waterway forming the local boundary between the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
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Pakistan
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Redmond, Washington
Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States located east of Seattle. The population was 45,256 at the 2000 census, with an estimated population of 52,468 in 2009 and 53,680 in 2010. Redmond is best known as the home of Microsoft (for which Redmond has become a metonym) and Nintendo of America. With an annual bike race on city streets and the state's only velodrome, Redmond is also known as "the bicycle capital of the Northwest". (The city is suburban in character, with its main form of transportation actually being the automobile (2000 [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=16000US5357535&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_DP3YR3&-ds_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_&-_lang=en&-_sse=on Census]). Redmond has a historic downtown with many individually owned businesses which is adjacent to the modern downtown Redmond.
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Russia
Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
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Schengen, Luxembourg
Schengen () is a small wine-making village and commune in far south-eastern Luxembourg, near the tripoint where the borders of Germany, France, and Luxembourg meet. Other villages within the commune include Remerschen and Wintrange. , the village has a population of 1527 with an area of 10.63 km² (4.1 sq mi).
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Scotland Yard
New Scotland Yard (NSY) is the headquarters building of the Metropolitan Police. Commonly known as the "Met", the force is responsible for law enforcement within Greater London, excluding the square mile of the City of London, which is covered by the City of London Police. The London Underground and national rail network are the responsibility of the British Transport Police.
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Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, HP, Intel, Cisco, eBay, Adobe, Agilent, Oracle, Yahoo, Netflix, and EA. The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the American high-tech sector. Despite the development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the United States and the world, Silicon Valley continues to be the leading hub for high-tech innovation and development, accounting for 1/3 of all of the venture capital investment in the United States. Geographically, the Silicon Valley encompasses all of the Santa Clara Valley including the city of San Jose (and adjacent communities), the southern Peninsula, and the southern East Bay.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, , abbreviated СССР, SSSR), informally known as the Soviet Union () or Soviet Russia, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed on the territory of most of the former Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.
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Stormont Estate
The Stormont Estate is an estate east of Belfast in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is within the townland of Ballymiscaw. The Stormont Estate includes Northern Ireland's main government buildings, which are surrounded mainly by woodland.
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Texas
Texas () is the second-largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.
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Toronto
Toronto (, colloquially or ) is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and is part of a densely populated region in Southern Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe, which is home to over 8.1 million residents—approximately 25% of Canada's population. The census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 5,113,149, and the Greater Toronto Area had a population of 5,555,912 in the 2006 Census.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia () is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" because it is the birthplace of eight U.S. presidents. The geography and climate of the state are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna. The capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond; Virginia Beach is the most populous city and Fairfax County the most populous political subdivision. The state population is nearly eight million.
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Wall Street
Wall Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It runs east from Broadway to South Street on the East River, through the historical center of the Financial District. It is the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies. Over time, Wall Street became the name of the surrounding geographic neighborhood and also shorthand (or a metonym) for the "influential financial interests" of the American financial industry, which is centered in the New York City area. Anchored by Wall Street, New York City vies with the City of London to be the financial capital of the world.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. (), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. Article One of the United States Constitution provides for a federal district, distinct from the states, to serve as the permanent national capital. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the federal territory until an act of Congress in 1871 established a single, unified municipal government for the whole District. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city shares its name with the U.S. state of Washington, which is located on the country's Pacific coast.
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Westminster
Westminster is an area of Central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross. It has a large concentration of London's historic and prestigious landmarks and visitor attractions, including Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. President since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.
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Whitehall
Whitehall is a road in Westminster in London, England. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, towards traditional Charing Cross, now at the southern end of Trafalgar Square and marked by the statue of Charles I, which is often regarded as the heart of London. Recognised as the centre of HM Government, the road is lined with government departments/ministries; "Whitehall" is therefore also frequently used as a metonym for overall UK governmental administration, as well as being a geographic name for the surrounding district.
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Zhongnanhai
Zhongnanhai () is an area in central Beijing, China adjacent to the Forbidden City which serves as the central headquarters for the Communist Party of China and the State Council of the People's Republic of China. The term Zhongnanhai is closely linked with the central government and senior Communist Party officials. It is often used as a metonym for the Chinese leadership at large (in the same sense that the term White House frequently refers to the President of the United States and his associates). The President of China, including Hu Jintao, and other top CPC and PRC leadership figures carry out many of their day-to-day administrative activities inside the compound, such as meetings with foreign dignitaries. However, the complex is shrouded in some mystery as it is closed to the general public, with photography additionally being strictly curtailed at several prominent locations such as the main gate. However, China Central Television frequently shows footage of meetings inside the compound, but limits its coverage largely to views of the interior of buildings.
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- Detroit
- dialect
- Downing Street
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- Eponym
- European Union
- figure of speech
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- Fleet Street
- Foggy Bottom
- Frankenstein
- Government of Russia
- Greater London
- heat
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- homonym
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- Jane Austen
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- language
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- List of metonyms
- Los Angeles
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- Magisterium
- Mary Shelley
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- Metropolitan Police
- Michigan
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- Moscow Kremlin
- Moselle River
- muscle
- NASA
- neighborhood
- New York City
- news media
- Newspeak
- Ottawa
- Pakistan
- Pars pro toto
- polysemy
- Pope
- Pride and Prejudice
- printing press
- Pun
- Redmond, Washington
- rhetoric
- Russia
- San Francisco Bay
- Schengen Agreement
- Schengen Area
- Schengen, Luxembourg
- Scotland Yard
- Semiotica
- Silicon Valley
- Silver Burdett
- similarity
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- Social stereotype
- Soviet Union
- Stormont Estate
- sweat
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- Texas
- The Crown
- The Pentagon
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Metonymy and Synecdoche
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- Duration: 5:02
- Published: 12 Mar 2010
- Uploaded: 12 Jan 2012
- Author: porqpinehead
This is my English project describing the basics of metonymy and synecdoche. Sorry for the bad quality! Comment and rate please :)
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Metonymy 1/2 Promotional MangaDub #4
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- Duration: 4:51
- Published: 17 Jul 2011
- Uploaded: 02 Jan 2012
- Author: philsterman10
Please go to Metonymy: jkproj.blogspot.com for Jk's art and lulu.com for his first released book! EDIT: Sorry but his books is now SOLD OUT, too bad ^^;; I own no sound or music, this was completely not profit and for promotional reasons only! We only own our voices!! I'm very proud to announce the cast for the main tier 2! Hope you enjoy! Cast: Kuron & Satyre: Philsterman01 Mahogany: MooseofFate Juxta: Dukemon22 Raux: AnathJacksonIII(the3rd23790) Basil: Tonberryking Sade: StripeyCzar Matagot: Haruhost Pataki: Megaguts549 Alani: OmegaOptimusSupreme Virska: Seymour Thank you all for your contribution!!!
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Looking at Ads to understand Metonymy Part I
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- Duration: 7:01
- Published: 20 Oct 2008
- Uploaded: 27 Aug 2010
- Author: lilstinkie
This is a suggested English language teaching resource recommended for secondary three express students. It focuses on the possible forms and functions of 'Metonymy' using advertisements as a visual aid to explain the concept. It includes questions to help facilitate classroom discussion and student interaction.
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Metonymy and Synecdoche
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- Duration: 1:49
- Published: 21 Jan 2009
- Uploaded: 30 Jul 2011
- Author: kirstyelise
For English III AP
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How Compression Gives Rise to Metaphor and Metonymy
Series: 9th conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language (CSDL) Meaning, Form and Body Title: How Compression Gives Rise to Metaphor and Metonymy. Speaker: Gilles Fauconnier: Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego. Date: October 18, 2008 Recorded at the Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence on the Campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Looking at Ads to understand Metonymy Part II
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- Duration: 7:39
- Published: 20 Oct 2008
- Uploaded: 02 Jun 2010
- Author: lilstinkie
Please refer to part 1
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Metonymy
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- Duration: 2:57
- Published: 18 Dec 2008
- Uploaded: 22 Aug 2010
- Author: ProjectsHHS
English III Project :]
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Metonymy or The Husband's Revenge a silent film production
This video was created by the lovely ladies in the back corner for our lit class in 2008. It was based on the short story by the Brazilian author Rachel de Queiroz. We only acted out the story telling part of the story so here is the introduction which will bring everything together: Metonymy. I learned the word in 1930 and shall never forget it. I had just published my first novel. A literary critic had scolded me because my hero went out into the night chest unbuttoned. What deplorable nonsense! wrote this eminently sensible gentleman, Why does she not say what she means? Obviously, it was his shirt that was unbuttoned, not his chest. I accepted his rebuke with humility, indeed with shame. But my illustrious Latin professor, Dr. Matos Peixoto came to my rescue. He said that what I had written was perfectly correct; that I had used a respectable figure of speech know as metonymy; and that this figure consisted in the use of one word for another word associated with it—for example, a word representing a cause instead of the effect, or representing the container when the content is intended. The classic instance, he told me, is the sparkling cup; in reality, not the cup but the wine in it is sparkling. The professor and I wrote a letter, which was published in the newspaper where the review had appeared. It put my unjust critic in his place. I hope he learned a lesson. I know I did. Ever since, I have been using metonymy—my only bond with classical rhetoric. Moreover, I <b>...</b>
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Metonymy - exhibition walkthrough
From Feb- May 2008, 70 artists and writers in Auckland, NZ collaborated to produce new artworks. This exhibition showcased the best of these works.
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Metonymy 1/2 Promotional Mangadub #6: Christmas (sorta...) Edition
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- Duration: 1:32
- Published: 21 Dec 2011
- Uploaded: 11 Jan 2012
- Author: philsterman10
Merry Christmas! btw, if there's a Beyonce song where she does say "Halo Halo Halo" I don't know it...so I took the SNL route XD;; Cast: Kuron, Satyre & Winamp: Philsterman01 Mahogany: MooseofFate All Rights Reserved to Beyonce for Single Ladies, and Micheal Buble on his Album, I OWN NOTHING but my voice!
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metonymy oviparous virgule epiglottis
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- Duration: 3:15
- Published: 03 Jun 2008
- Uploaded: 17 Jun 2010
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Metonymy (Radiohead Faust Arp)
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Metonymy 1/2 Promotional MemeDub #1: Spend a Day with your OC
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Cast: Satyre & Kuron: Philsterman01 Raux: AnathJacksonIII (the3rd23790) Captain Obvious: OmegaOptimusSupreme
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Evolutionary Poetics - Metonymy
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This is something of a follow-up to my last video on evolutionary aethetics, basically picking up on the ideas that not only aesthetics (the attractiveness of things) may be open to an explanation in terms of adaptive success, but also poetics, which I am choosing to understand as the transformation of the raw data of the world into the stuff of experience. In this video I am speculating about the figure of speech referred to as 'metonymy' in which the part is substituted for the whole. It certainly seems to be the case that this principle is not just in operation within language but also forms a significant part of perception. When I see the front of a tree I do not assume that this tree has no back. Similarly, if I see a dog partially hidden behind a fence I do not think that the dog exists as a series of slices. In both these cases I perceive the whole tree and the entire dog, even though only a part of this whole is visible. It is not entirely surprising that perception works unproblematically in this way; from an evolutionary perspective, it would have been adaptively advantageous for my ancestors to carry out exactly this kind of metonymic perception, assuming that if the head of a predator was visible then the rest of that predator were probably attached.
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Metonymy 1/2 Promotional Mangadub
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Please view in HD! This is a purely fanmade promotional video for Kuron! Congrats to your new book and We hope it goes well! Please go to jkproj.blogspot.com for more of his art and commission work! and go to lulu.com and look up Metonymy 1/2 for his first book I own no music! and this was purely for promotional and fanmade purposes!!! Castlist: Kuron & Juxta: philsterman01 Raux: AnathJacksonIII (the3rd23790) Mahogany: MooseofFate
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Metonymy 1/2 Promotional Mangadub #2
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Another Kuron Promo! Go take a look! ^^ jkproj.blogspot.com Cast: Kuron/Satire: philsterman01 Mahogany: MooseofFate
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Metonymy 1/2 Promotional MangaDub #5: Halloween Edition!
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An early Halloween related Mangadub of Kuron and his friends! Featuring the loveable butt of the joke, Mahogany! Just kidding, Mahogany get's plenty of love and we all know it XD Please go to jkproj.blogspot.com for more! Cast: Kuron & Satyre: Philsterman01 Mahogany: MooseofFate
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Minutes To Metonymy - Mona Lisa
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This is an Amateur Music Video of our song. we hope you like it! :D
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Metonymy 1/2 Promotional Mangadub #3
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Now with all of Tier 1! Kuron/Satire: Philsterman01 Juxta: Dukemon22 Raux: AnathJacksonIII (the3rd23790) Mahogany: MooseofFate
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8daysaweekprod - minutes to metonymy
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8daysAweek Production presents In Quest for Felicity Nov29 @ Freedom Bar
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Metonymy Trailer
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Metonymy and synecdoche occur when people refer to something by using a word that is associated with whatever is being named. For example, Volde-mort's name appropriately translates into "running from death," while the name of Rufus Scrimgeour, the Minister of Magic who is constantly obscuring the...
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Metonymy ( ) is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. For instance, "Hollywood" is used as a metonym (an instance of metonymy) for American cinema, because of the fame and cultural identity of Hollywood, California as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars. Another example is "Westminster," which is used as a metonym for the Parliament of the United Kingdom, because it is located there.
The words "metonymy" and "metonym" come from the , , "a change of name", from , , "after, beyond" and , , a suffix used to name figures of speech, from , or , , "name." Metonymy may also be instructively contrasted with metaphor. Both figures involve the substitution of one term for another. In metaphor, this substitution is based on some specific similarity, whereas, in metonymy, the substitution is based on some understood association (contiguity).
Cognitive science and linguistics for metaphor and metonymy
Metonymy works by the contiguity (association) between two concepts, whereas metaphor works by the similarity between them. When people use metonymy, they do not typically wish to transfer qualities from one referent to another as they do with metaphor: there is nothing press-like about reporters or crown-like about a monarch, but "the press" and "the crown" are both common metonyms.Two examples using the term "fishing" help make the distinction better. The phrase "to fish pearls" uses metonymy, drawing from "fishing" the idea of taking things from the ocean. What is carried across from "fishing fish" to "fishing pearls" is the domain of metonymy.
In contrast, the metaphorical phrase "fishing for information" transfers the concept of fishing into a new domain. If someone is "fishing" for information, we do not imagine that he or she is anywhere near the ocean; rather, we transpose elements of the action of fishing (waiting, hoping to catch something that cannot be seen, probing) into a new domain (a conversation). Thus, metonymy works by calling up a domain of usage and an array of associations (in the example above, boats, the ocean, gathering life from the sea), whereas metaphor picks a target set of meanings and transfers them to a new domain of usage.
Examples
Sometimes, metaphor and metonymy can both be at work in the same figure of speech, or one could interpret a phrase metaphorically or metonymically. For example, the phrase "lend me your ear" could be analyzed in a number of ways. One could imagine the following interpretations:
It is difficult to say which of the above analyses most closely represents the way a listener interprets the expression, and it is possible that the phrase is analysed in different ways by different listeners, or even by one and the same listener at different times. Regardless, all three analyses yield the same interpretation; thus, metaphor and metonymy, though quite different in their mechanism, can work together seamlessly. For further analysis of idioms in which metaphor and metonymy work together, including an example very similar to the one given here, read this article titled Metaphor and Metonymy in Contrast.
Polysemy
The concept of metonymy also informs the nature of polysemy, i.e., how the same phonological form (word) has different semantic mappings (meanings). If the two meanings are unrelated, as in the word ''pen'' meaning both ''writing instrument'' and ''enclosure'', they are considered homonyms.Within logical polysemies, a large class of mappings can be considered to be a case of metonymic transfer (e.g., ''chicken'' for the animal, as well as its meat; ''crown'' for the object, as well as the institution). Other cases wherein the meaning is polysemous, however, may turn out to be more metaphorical, e.g., ''eye'' as in the ''eye of the needle''.
Rhetorical strategy
Metonymy can also refer to the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things contiguous to it, in either time or space. For example, in Jane Austen's novel ''Pride and Prejudice'', the main character Elizabeth's change of heart and love for her suitor, Mr. Darcy, is first revealed when she sees his house:
Austen describes the house and Elizabeth's admiration for the estate at length as an indirect way of describing her feelings for Mr. Darcy himself. One could attempt to read this as an extended metaphor, but such a reading would break down as one tried to find a way to map the elements of her description (rising ground, swollen river) directly to attributes of her suitor. Furthermore, an extended metaphor typically highlights the author's ingenuity by maintaining an unlikely similarity to an unusual degree of detail.
In this description, on the other hand, although there are many elements of the description that we could transfer directly from the grounds to the suitor (natural beauty, lack of artifice), Austen is emphasizing the consistency of the domain of usage rather than stretching to make a fresh comparison: Each of the things she describes she associates with Darcy, and in the end we feel that Darcy is as beautiful as the place to which he is compared ''and'' that he belongs within it. Metonymy of this kind, thus, helps define a person or thing through a set of mutually reinforcing associations rather than through a comparison. Advertising frequently uses this kind of metonymy, putting a product in close proximity to something desirable in order to make an indirect association that would seem crass if made with a direct comparison.
Synecdoche
Synecdoche, wherein a specific part of something is used to refer to the whole, is usually understood as a specific kind of metonymy. Sometimes, however, people make an absolute distinction between a metonym and a synecdoche, treating metonymy as different from rather than inclusive of synecdoche. There is a similar problem with the usage of simile and metaphor.When the distinction is made, it is the following: when A is used to refer to B, it is a synecdoche if A is a component of B and a metonym if A is commonly associated with B but not actually part of its whole.
Thus, "The White House said" would be a metonymy for the president and his staff, because the White House (A) is not part of the president or his staff (B) but is closely associated with them. On the other hand, "20,000 hungry mouths to feed" is a synecdoche because mouths (A) are a part of the people (B) actually referred to.
One example of a simple sentence that displays synecdoche, metaphor, and metonymy is: "Fifty keels ploughed the deep", where "keels" is the synecdoche, as it names the whole (the ship) after a particular part (of the ship); "ploughed" is the metaphor, as it substitutes the concept of ploughing a field for moving through the ocean; and "the deep" is the metonym, as "depth" is an attribute associated with the ocean.
Examples
| !word!!literal meaning!!metonymic use | ||
| drinking | consuming a liquid | |
| damages | destructive effects | |
| word | a unit of language | |
| sweat | perspiration | |
| heat | a condition of being hot | |
| tongue | oral muscle | |
| the press | printing press | |
| Houston | Texas> | |
| Annapolis, Maryland | Annapolis | the capital of the state of Maryland |
| Detroit | the largest city in Michigan | |
| Hollywood, Los Angeles, California | Hollywood | a section of Los Angeles |
| The Kremlin | A fortified construction in historic cities of Russia and the Soviet Union | |
| Langley, Virginia | Langley | an unincorporated community in Virginia |
| Washington, D.C. | Washington | the capital city of the United States |
| Ottawa | the capital city of Canada | |
| Queen's Park (Toronto) | Queen's Park | a large urban park in Toronto |
| Canberra | the capital city of Australia | |
| Islamabad | capital city of Pakistan | |
| Wall Street | a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City | |
| Bay Street | a street in downtown Toronto | |
| K Street (Washington, D.C.) | K Street | a street in Washington, D.C. |
| Madison Avenue | an avenue running the length of Manhattan Island in New York City | |
| Broadway (New York City) | Broadway | an avenue running the length of Manhattan Island in New York City |
| Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. | The Hill | neighborhood in Washington, D.C. and the physical location of the United States Congress > |
| White House | The White House | the official Presidential residence in Washington, D.C. |
| The Pentagon | Arlington County, Virginia>Arlington, Virginia | |
| Foggy Bottom | A neighborhood in Washington, D.C. | |
| Downing Street | A street in the City of Westminster, on which is located No. 10, the official residence of the UK Prime Minister | |
| Scotland Yard | A (historic) London street, on which the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police was located. | |
| The Crown | A monarch's headwear | |
| The Palace | Buckingham Palace | |
| Westminster | A City in Greater London | |
| Whitehall | A street in the City of Westminster, the headquarters of the British Civil Service and various Governmental Departments | |
| Fleet Street | A street in London | |
| Holy See | The Vatican | The Vatican City State |
| Redmond, Washington | Redmond | |
| Brussels | The capital city of Belgium and seat of the European Union | |
| Frankenstein | Scientist (fictional character in Mary Shelley novel) who gives life to a creature | |
| Schengen, Luxembourg | Schengen | a village and commune in Luxembourg on the Moselle River |
| Stormont Estate | Stormont | |
| Zhongnanhai | Two small lakes in a compound west of the Forbidden City in Central Beijing | |
| Silicon Valley | Nickname for the section of the San Francisco Bay area that is home to many high-tech corporations | |
| bench | the seat where judges in a trial sit | |
| PDX | International airport code for the Portland, Oregon International Airport |
Metalepsis
Metalepsis and metonymy are closely related. Much like synecdoche, it is understood as a specific kind of metonymy.
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