NOUN
- the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
How To Use polysemy In A Sentence
- You may have noticed that homonymy and polysemy are very similar.
- On this account, it is the polysemy of the indefinite article that gives rise to the ambiguity of the indefinite noun phrase.
- In doing this, lexicographers generally take the view that homonymy relates to different words whose forms have converged while polysemy relates to one word whose meanings have diverged or radiated.
- For my part, therefore, I am inclined to see features of both monosemy and polysemy in a word's semantic structure.
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- Literariness was not merely the quality that distinguished poetics from pragmatics, it was the guarantee and promise of linguistic richness, of polysemy.
- All the words for actual (kinds of) snow have been removed, and I'm ignoring the extensive polysemy of snow and many of its derivatives.
- Under the guidance of this theoretical framework, the systematic discussions and analysis will be carried out to explore the nature and prototypical characteristics of polysemy and synonymy.
- For my part, therefore, I am inclined to see features of both monosemy and polysemy in a word's semantic structure.
- This is the divarication of the meaning caused by consciously using the trait of Polysemy in the given circumstance.
