polysemy
noun/pəˈlɪsɪmi/
/pəˈlɪsɪmi/
[uncountable] (linguistics)- the fact of having more than one meaningWord Originearly 20th cent.: from poly- ‘many’ + Greek sēma ‘sign’.
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