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What is a double meaning?

What is a double meaning? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The situation in which a word or phrase has two different, often opposite, meanings. For example, wicked can mean both "good" and "bad".
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True to the nature of oracles, this one has a double meaning, and Semiramis construes it in the wrong way.
He needed somebody to trust in this morass of intrigue and double meaning that was called the royal court.
Explain this double meaning, as far as the work of the press illustrators is concerned.
You need a handbook for guys just to understand the double meaning to everything they say!
People might read double meaning into that, the station manager was sternly told.
We are fed up of slapstick comedies and dialogues filled with double meaning.

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