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polysemous

adj
/pəˈlɪs.ɪ.məs/UK/ˌpɑːl.iˈsiː.məs/US

Etymology

From Medieval Latin polysēmus, from Ancient Greek πολύσημος (polúsēmos), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + σημαίνω (sēmaínō, “I signify, mean”).

  1. derived from πολύσημος
  2. borrowed from polysēmus

Definitions

  1. Synonym of polysemic.

    • But just how are the meanings associated with a polysemous word related? A look at the entries for polysemous words in different dictionaries shows that lexicographers cannot agree on how to divide up the semantic space […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for polysemous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA