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POLYSEMANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does polysemant mean?
• POLYSEMANT (noun)
The noun POLYSEMANT has 1 sense:
1. a word having more than one meaning
Familiarity information: POLYSEMANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A word having more than one meaning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
polysemant; polysemantic word; polysemous word
Hypernyms ("polysemant" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
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