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Date: 1900-2000
Language: Late Latin
Origin: polysemus, from Greek, from sema 'sign'

polysemous

 adjective
     
Related topics: Linguistics
po‧lys‧e‧mous technical
SL a polysemous word has two or more different meanings
—polysemy noun [uncountable]
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