Associations to the word «Polysemy»
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Wiktionary
POLYSEMY, noun. (semantics) The ability of words, signs and symbols to have multiple meanings.
Dictionary definition
POLYSEMY, noun. The ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.