Meaning of polysemy | Babel Free
ˈpɒ.lɪ.siː.miDefinitions
The quality characteristic of a polyseme, a sign (such as a word or symbol) that has multiple meanings (senses), often including multiple similar ones.
uncountable, usually
Equivalents
العربية
تَعَدُّدُ مَعَانٍ
Čeština
polysémie
Ελληνικά
πολυσημία
Español
polisemia
Français
polysémie
Magyar
poliszémia
Italiano
polisemia
한국어
다의성
Македонски
полисемија
Nederlands
polysemie
Polski
wieloznaczność
Português
polissemia
Română
polisemie
Українська
багатозна́чність
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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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