Definition of Polysemic

1. Adjective. (linguistics) Having a number of meanings, interpretations or understandings. ¹

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Definition of Polysemic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polysemic

polysarcous
polyscelia
polyschematic
polyschematist
polyschematists
polyscope
polyscopes
polysectarian
polysemant
polysemantic
polysemantic word
polysemantically
polyseme
polysemes
polysemia
polysemic (current term)
polysemies
polysemous
polysemous word
polysemously
polysemousness
polysemy
polysepalous
polyserositis
polysialic
polysialic acid
polysialic acid O-acetyltransferase
polysialic acid depolymerase

Literary usage of Polysemic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Woman; Her Diseases and Remedies: A Series of Letters to His Class by Charles Delucena Meigs (1851)
"... or vertigo ; you would at once refer such phenomena to their true cause, which is the polysemic state of the upper part of the trunk and limbs. ..."

2. The Mycenaean Feast by James C. Wright (2004)
"... emblems but also through polysemic ones that represent salient activities and structural relations ..."

3. The Development Decade?: Economic and Social Change in South Africa, 1994-2004 by Vishnu Padayachee (2006)
"In the uncertain, unfinished process of social transformation, 'civil society' has emerged as a broad, polysemic terrain of debate, work, aspiration and ..."

4. Technology and Productivity: The Challenge for Economic Policy by OECD Staff (1991)
"... the inclusion of more polysemic information. Here the market defines the product instead of the product defining the market (Chorafas and Steinmann, ..."

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