polyseme

See also: Polyseme and polysème

English

Etymology

From poly- +‎ seme.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒ.lɪ.siːm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

polyseme (plural polysemes)

1. (semantics) A word or phrase that has multiple meanings, or, more specifically, multiple etymologically related meanings.

   Antonym: monoseme

   Hypernyms: word, term, phrase

   Hyponyms: (linearly polysemic types) autohyponym, autohypernym, automeronym, autoholonym

   Coordinate term: homonym

Translations

word/phrase with multiple meanings

German: Polysem (de) n Japanese: 多義語 (ja) (tagigo) Portuguese: polissema m Slovene: večpomenka f, polisem m Spanish: polisemia (es) f, polisémico (es) m

Adjective

polyseme

1. (linguistics) Having multiple meanings.

Antonyms

• monoseme

Related terms

• polysemic
• polysemy

Anagrams

• employes, employés

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Adjective

polyseme

1. inflection of polysem:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular