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Definition of Polysemic
1. Adjective. (linguistics) Having a number of meanings, interpretations or understandings. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polysemic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polysemic
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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