Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or characterized by many meanings, as the words play and table.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having many meanings.
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- adjective linguistics Having multiple
meanings orinterpretations .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of words; having many meanings
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Words or phrases that can have two or more are sometimes referred to as polysemous words.
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Words or phrases that can have two or more are sometimes referred to as polysemous words.
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BD has always dwelt in a polysemous universe, which has left his texts open to unusual misinterpretation and abuse.
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On its own, of course, a word may be horribly polysemous and ambiguous.
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Barthes famously said that images are polysemous, they have multiple meanings.
What the New Yorker teaches us about visual literacy Jonathan 2008
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It was a pregnant, polysemous term, intended to inspire.
Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness Philip Reynolds 2010
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The reward for the reader is polysemous meaning, subtlety, fractal flavor bursts of emotion and idea.
BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Writers on Writing: Sentence Structure Oopsies 2010
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It was a pregnant, polysemous term, intended to inspire.
Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness Philip Reynolds 2010
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It was a pregnant, polysemous term, intended to inspire.
Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness Philip Reynolds 2010
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It was a pregnant, polysemous term, intended to inspire.
Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness Philip Reynolds 2010
jmjarmstrong commented on the word polysemous
JM is polysemous at the moment.
April 5, 2011