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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