polysemically
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
polysemically (comparative more polysemically, superlative most polysemically)
- (semantics) In a polysemic manner; with multiple meanings.
- 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 113:
- Even though some names or words polysemically carry sexual meanings, this does not automatically mean that every usage of them in literary texts, even those of a pornographic nature, has a sexual meaning, either explicitly or punningly.
Translations[edit]
in a polysemic manner
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