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Meaning of subsubsense | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A subsense of a subsense.

rare

Examples

“To simplify the discussion, I will assume that the lexeme has no subsenses, subsubsenses, etc.—although this is seldom the case in actuality.”
“The Oxford English Dictionary gives scores of different senses, subsenses, and subsubsenses for "eat" whereas the Hanyu Da Cidian offers about a score of different senses for chi; most of the extended, figurative, and slang usages of chi ("eat") are very recent – within the last century or two.”
“The paired sense data can be classified as one of four levels of similarity: the Roman-numeralled homograph level (band-I (group) vs band-II (ring)), the major sense level (band-I.1 (music group) vs band-I.2 (other group)), the subsense level (which we arbitrarily use to refer to the distance between a general sense number such as I.1 and its specialization (I.1.2)), and finally the subsubsense level (such as between I.1.1 and I.1.2).[…]In contrast, at the finer subsubsense level only 52 per cent of the given pairs were translated differently.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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