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Double meaning

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  1. 1
    The situation in which a word or phrase has two different, often opposite, meanings. For example, wicked can mean both "good" and "bad".
  2. 2
    A deliberate construction that plays on two separate meanings of a word or words; a pun.

    "It is important to note that connotation is different from an unambiguous “double meaning” or “pun.” With a pun both meanings have to be lexically current but with connotation it is the multiple, even ambiguous, associations of each word that are important.)"

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