polysemous

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /pəˈlɪs.ɪ.məs/|/ˌpɒl.ɪˈsiː.məs/    美 /ˌpɑːl.iˈsiː.məs/|/pəˈlɪs.ə.məs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Synonym of polysemic. not-comparable,rhetoric
    — But just how are the meanings associated with a polysemous word related? A look at the entries for polysemous words in different dictionaries shows that lexicographers cannot agree on how to divide up the semantic space […]

词源

From Medieval Latin polysēmus, from Ancient Greek πολύσημος (polúsēmos), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + σημαίνω (sēmaínō, “I signify, mean”).
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