Definition of "metonymical" [metonymical]

• Of, or relating to metonymy (adjective)

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• "This is what we call a metonymical extension - where a word extends its meaning to something contiguous with its original meaning (and may or may not eventually abandon its original meaning) e.g. "glass" means both the substance and something such as a drinking vessel made of glass."
• "Sure, he provides plenty of linguistic examples of the types of mappings metaphorical, metonymical, polysemic, etc., and even the types of inferences made, but no description of how any of this occurs."
• "Moreover, by showing how Tokyo has always been both more and less than the capital city of Japan–a metonymical place for all things national, I use the history of Tokyo and its rivers to show how the city worked as a nexus amidst several layers of cultural, social, and economic networks–local, regional, national, imperial and international."