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polysemy

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɒ.lɪ.siː.mi/Part of speech nounSorted elmopsyyStarts with PEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings

Word origin

From polyseme + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • Fifty years ago the linguist and semanticist Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy, the fact that some words have a network of multiple but related meanings, is "the pivot of semantic analysis" […]
  • Polysemy proliferates in natural language: Virtually every word is polysemous to some extent.

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