polysemous

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
20
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/pəˈlɪs.ɪ.məs/
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/pəˈlɪs.ɪ.məs/ · /ˌpɒl.ɪˈsiː.məs/ · /ˌpɑːl.iˈsiː.məs/(US) · /pəˈlɪs.ə.məs/(US)

Definition of polysemous

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable, rhetoric)Synonym of polysemic.
    “But just how are the meanings associated with a polysemous word related? A look at the entries for polysemous words in different dictionaries shows that lexicographers cannot agree on how to divide up the semantic space […]”

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Etymology

From Medieval Latin polysēmus, from Ancient Greek πολύσημος (polúsēmos), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + σημαίνω (sēmaínō, “I signify, mean”).

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