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Polysemy
//ˈpɒ.lɪ.siː.mi//
"Polysemy" in a Sentence (2 examples)
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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