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What does polysemy mean?

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Noun
  1. (semantics) The ability of words, signs and symbols to have multiple meanings.
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For my part, therefore, I am inclined to see features of both monosemy and polysemy in a word's semantic structure.
The standard approach to polysemy in natural language processing has been to break down the problem into sub-tasks.
It is significant that many linguists have sought to limit the role of polysemy in linguistic semantics, if not to eliminate it altogether.
We have relations of meaning such as synonymy and antonymy, polysemy and homonymy, ways of organizing the vocabulary.
All the words for actual snow have been removed, and I'm ignoring the extensive polysemy of snow and many of its derivatives.
On this account, it is the polysemy of the indefinite article that gives rise to the ambiguity of the indefinite noun phrase.

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