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polysemantic

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Adj.1.polysemantic - of words; having many meanings
polysemous
ambiguous - having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"
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This commonplace understanding of Ovid's epic, neatly summarized by Sabinus in one sentence and accrediting the poem with an ancient polysemantic wisdom, no doubt helps to account for the many redactions and commentaries that Ovid's masterpiece has inspired over the course of two millennia.
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Besides, a definition such as 'chimerical' seems more acceptable to all concerned because it is polysemantic (Chimera: a) (biol.
Genetic engineering and contemporary art: structural aspects and the ... by Bulatov, Dmitry / Trames
In Early Modern English, the lexeme appears to have been more polysemantic than it is in Present-Day English, where, if listed at all, the meaning "asylum" is marked as 'archaic', and the figurative abstract sense functions as a prototype, whose position, given the (current) circumstances, is not in jeopardy.
A holistic, socio-cognitive model of language and language change: a ... by Krawczak, Karolina / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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