metonymy
C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A figure of speech in which a thing is referred to by the name of something closely associated with it.
Using "the Crown" for the monarchy is a familiar instance of metonymy.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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