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polyseme

a word that has more than one meaning... the meanings can be rather close, or very far apart

ex: wood (material), wood (forest)
crane (animal), crane (in construction)

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Author: CoboCards-User

Main topic: Linguistics

Topic: Lexical terminology

Published: 05.05.2014

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