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POLYSEMANTIC WORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polysemantic word mean? 

POLYSEMANTIC WORD (noun)
  The noun POLYSEMANTIC WORD has 1 sense:

1. a word having more than one meaningplay

  Familiarity information: POLYSEMANTIC WORD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POLYSEMANTIC WORD (noun)


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 ("polysemantic word" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)


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