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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.
In our workshop, we would like to subject the polysemy of agent nouns to closer scrutiny.
We have relations of meaning such as synonymy and antonymy, polysemy and homonymy, ways of organizing the vocabulary.
The aim is therefore to resort to a language that allows evocation, polysemy, non-linear thought, a certain complexity: the language of images.
These concern the distinction between polysemy and homonymy, and between polysemy and monosemy.
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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