Polysemy (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ s ɪ m i / or / ˈ p ɒ l ɪ ˌ s iː m i /; [1] [2] from Ancient Greek πολύ-(polý-) 'many' and σῆμα (sêma) 'sign') is the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, a morpheme, a word, or a phrase) to have multiple related meanings.

2019年9月9日 · Polysemy is the association of one word with two or more distinct meanings, and a polyseme is a word or phrase with multiple meanings. The word "polysemy" comes from the Greek for "many signs." The adjective forms of the word include polysemous or polysemic.

Polysemy is characterized as the phenomenon whereby a single word form is associated with two or several related senses. It is distinguished from monosemy, where one word form is associated with a single meaning, and homonymy, where a single word form is associated with two or several unrelated meanings.

Polysemy occurs when a word form carries more than one meaning. English has a very large stock of word forms, so its lexicon is relatively free of polysemy compared with many …

The meaning of POLYSEMOUS is having multiple meanings.

One of the concepts used by linguists (people who study the way languages work) is polysemy — it's an ambiguous quality that many words and phrases in English share. Generally, polysemy is distinguished from simple homonyms (where words sound …

Polysemy occurs when a word form carries more than one meaning. English has a very large stock of word forms, so its lexicon is relatively free of polysemy compared with many …

2023年7月31日 · Polysemy, derived from the Greek roots ‘poly’ (many) and ‘sema’ (sign), refers to a word or phrase that has multiple related meanings. Unlike homonyms (words that sound and/or look the same but have unrelated meanings), polysemous words contain meanings that bear a logical connection to each other.

Polysemy is one of the central issues in the psychology of word meaning. Most common content words do not have a single, simple meaning but instead pick out a number of related meanings, or senses. Two important questions are how those senses are represented in the lexicon and how they are processed during language comprehension.

Polysemous words are words that have multiple meanings that are related by extension. This means that a single word can have various interpretations based on context, yet all these meanings share a common theme or concept.