Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Define: Polysemy

Today I learned the word polysemy: the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase, or as described in this talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary.html) "the greedy habit some words have of taking more than one meaning for themselves".

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