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What does polysemic mean?

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  1. (linguistics) Having a number of meanings, interpretations or understandings.
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These pairs often display regular polysemic relations, i.e. they constitute systematic sense combinations that are valid for more than one word.
Many words are polysemic, especially when they exist in different languages.
The contrast is again reiterated through the polysemic nature of photographic production itself.
Among other things it is important to invite them to exploit the language of images the evocative, polysemic and poetic potential of which is particularly rich.
But when a word emerges so strongly within the public discourse, it inevitably becomes polysemic.
The author may choose to use a specific word because it is polysemic or homonymic.

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