On 2008-11-28 19:08:06 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
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Walter today mentioned he's still not sure I hadn't made "polysemy" up.
Indeed, Thunderbird and Firefox are suggesting it's a typo - please
"add to dictionary" :o).
Does this help?
polysemy
noun Linguistics
the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase.
-- New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition
polysemy
n : the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in
different contexts) to express two or more different meanings [syn:
lexical ambiguity] [ant: monosemy]
-- WordNet <http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=polysemy>
--
Michel Fortin
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http://michelf.com/
