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What does polysemous mean?

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  1. (linguistics) Having multiple meanings or interpretations.
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There should be a way of saying that there is one polysemous lexeme with limitations on how you can use its singular.
Added to this is often a literary element that confers upon his works an amplified narrative flavor as well as a polysemous experience.
They may, however, be put off by homographs and polysemous words, such as the various uses of bank and crane.
A word like walk is polysemous, while a word like bank is homonymous between at least bank for money and bank of a river.
He highlights the polysemous nature of economic and social change in Europe.
The earth also trembled at Wajdi Mouawad's first theatre season, under the banner of the polysemous phrase We are at war.

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