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Entry: po·ly·se·mous Pronunciation Guide
Pronunciation:
|päl |sm s,
-l  -; plism-
Function:
adjective
Etymology: Late Latin polysemus,
from Greek polysmos with many
meanings, from poly- + sma
sign
: having many meanings <explains
that his poem is polysemous -- C.S.Singleton>
<excited by the difficult, the ambiguous, the
polysemous -- R.G.Davis>
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