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Meaning of "monosemy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MONOSEMY

From mono- + (poly)semy.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MONOSEMY

monosemy  [ˈmɒnəʊˌsiːmɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MONOSEMY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Monosemy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MONOSEMY


Aruwimi
ˌɑːruːˈwiːmɪ
beamy
ˈbiːmɪ
creamy
ˈkriːmɪ
daydreamy
ˈdeɪˌdriːmɪ
dreamy
ˈdriːmɪ
gleamy
ˈɡliːmɪ
meemie
ˈmiːmɪ
polysemy
ˌpɒlɪˈsiːmɪ
preemie
ˈpriːmɪ
premie
ˈpriːmɪ
primi
ˈpriːmɪ
schemie
ˈskiːmɪ
seamy
ˈsiːmɪ
steamie
ˈstiːmɪ
steamy
ˈstiːmɪ
streamy
ˈstriːmɪ
sunbeamy
ˈsʌnˌbiːmɪ
surimi
ˌsuːˈriːmɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MONOSEMY

monosaccharide
monosaturated
monosemic
monosepalous
monosis
monoski
monoskier
monoskiing
monosodium
monosodium dihydrogen orthophosphate
monosodium glutamate
monosome
monosomic
monosomy
monospaced
monospaced type
monospecific
monospecificity
monospermal
monospermous

WORDS THAT END LIKE MONOSEMY

academy
alchemy
archenemy
blasphemy
calycanthemy
city academy
demy
enemy
French Academy
frenemy
military academy
police academy
Ptolemy
public enemy
Royal Academy
service academy
the Academy
the archenemy

Synonyms and antonyms of monosemy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «monosemy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MONOSEMY

Find out the translation of monosemy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of monosemy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «monosemy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

单义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

monosemia
570 millions of speakers

English

monosemy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

monosemy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

monosemy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

моносемия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

monossemia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

monosemy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

monosémie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Monosemy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Eindeutigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

単義性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

monosemy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Monosemy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

monosemy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

monosemy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मोनोसेमी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

monosemy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

monosemia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

monosemy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

моносемія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

monosemy
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Μονοσημία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

monosemie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

monosemy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

monosemy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of monosemy

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MONOSEMY»

The term «monosemy» is barely ever used and occupies the 194.373 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MONOSEMY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «monosemy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «monosemy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about monosemy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOSEMY»

Discover the use of monosemy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to monosemy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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On Monosemy: A Study in Linguistic Semantics
Argues that most words do not have multiple meanings and criticizes the assignment of additional meanings through overspecification
Charles Ruhl, 1989
2
Creation Language in Romans 8: A Study in Monosemy
Fewster develops the theory of lexical monosemy, in a systemic-functional linguistic framework, and disputes concensus readings of ?????? as nature in Romans 8.
Gregory P. Fewster, 2013
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Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis
CHAPTER. 3. Monosemy,. homonymy. and. polysemy". Wallis Reid Rutgers University i. Introduction Linguistic tradition has a three-way typology for describing the outcome of the semantic analysis of a lexical or grammatical form.
Ellen Contini-Morava, Robert S. Kirsner, Betsy Rodriguez-Bachiller, 2004
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Contexts and Constructions
On the monosemy view, more commonly referred to as the vagueness approach2 , verbs such as kunnen ('can') and moeten ('must') have one general, encompassing meaning that is compatible with their various interpretations. For these ...
Alexander Bergs, Gabriele Diewald, 2009
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Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage Patterns
Polysemy, monosemy, synchrony, and diachrony The question of how linguistic meaning is stored and processed in the mental lexicon is a much-debated issue. With respect to this question, at least two opposing positions can be identified, ...
Hans-Jörg Schmid, Susanne Handl, 2010
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Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics
This book provides a representative survey of early and more recent concerns in cognitively inspired lexical semantics.
Hubert Cuyckens, René Dirven, John R. Taylor, 2003
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Terminology in Everyday Life
The fact that term-concept relations are much more likely to be one-to-many ( polysemy) and many-to-one (synonymy) than one-to-one (monosemy, mononymy or Wüster's Eineindeutigkeit of monosemy with mononymy) is crucial to a ...
Marcel Thelen, Frieda Steurs, 2010
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Cognitive Linguistics and Non-Indo-European Languages
A question thus arises as to whether the extended meanings in each semantic grouping are a case of polysemy or monosemy. A poly- semous lexical category refers to a lexical item with distinct but related meanings whereas a monosemous  ...
Eugene H. Casad, Gary B. Palmer, 2003
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Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure
In light of the above, I outline a monosemous account based on the similarity between IRs that seeks to address these problems while integrating insights from past analyses. . Intensive reflexives – monosemy The analysis outlined here aims ...
Carsten Breul, Edward Göbbel, 2010
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Terminologie et traduction
II Tera-concept relationships between languages As these categories apply to any language the theoretical relationship between any two languages (SL-TL) may be illustrated as follows monosemy plunvaience synonymy monosemy ...
‎1987

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONOSEMY»

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Mitch Hedberg Compilation Part 1
Ambiguity in semantics are quite prevalent; Homonym, Homophones, Homograph, Heteronym, Heterograph, Polysemy, Monosemy, Capitonym ... «YouTube, Nov 09»

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« EDUCALINGO. Monosemy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/monosemy>. Apr 2024 ».
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