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Meaning of "polyseme" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POLYSEME

polyseme  [ˈpɒlɪˌsiːm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLYSEME

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Polyseme is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES POLYSEME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Polysemy

Polysemy is the capacity for a sign or signs to have multiple related meanings, i.e., a large semantic field. It is usually regarded as distinct from homonymy, in which the multiple meanings of a word may be unconnected or unrelated. Charles Fillmore and Beryl Atkins’ definition stipulates three elements: the various senses of a polysemous word have a central origin, the links between these senses form a network, and understanding the ‘inner’ one contributes to understanding of the ‘outer’ one. Polysemy is a pivotal concept within disciplines such as media studies and linguistics.

Definition of polyseme in the English dictionary

The definition of polyseme in the dictionary is having multiple meanings.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POLYSEME


aldoxime
ælˈdɒksiːm
berseem
bɜːˈsiːm
beseem
bɪˈsiːm
decime
ˈdɛsiːm
enseam
ɪnˈsiːm
inseam
ˈɪnsiːm
ketoxime
kiːˈtɒksiːm
kibbutzim
ˌkɪbʊtˈsiːm
lexeme
ˈlɛksiːm
misbeseem
ˌmɪsbɪˈsiːm
misseem
ˌmɪsˈsiːm
oxime
ˈɒksiːm
phantasime
ˈfæntəˌsiːm
raceme
rəˈsiːm
seam
siːm
seame
siːm
seem
siːm
seme
siːm
teleseme
ˈtelɪˌsiːm
unbeseem
ˌʌnbɪˈsiːm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLYSEME

polysaccharide
polysaccharose
polysemant
polysemic
polysemous
polysemy
polysepalous
polysiloxane
polysome
polysomic
polysomy
polysorbate
polystichous
polystylar
polystyle
polystyrene
polystyrene cement
polystyrene chips
polysulphide
polysyllabic

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLYSEME

academe
bonus scheme
breme
careme
color scheme
colour scheme
deme
extreme
glosseme
heme
housing scheme
incentive scheme
meme
morpheme
pension scheme
pilot scheme
scheme
supreme
theme
triseme

Synonyms and antonyms of polyseme in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «polyseme» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLYSEME

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

Translator English - Chinese

多义词
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

polyseme
570 millions of speakers

English

polyseme
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

polyseme
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

polyseme
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

polyseme
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

polyseme
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

polyseme
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

polyseme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Polyseme
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

polyseme
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

polyseme
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

polyseme
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Polyseme
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

polyseme
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

polyseme
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पॉलिसिमा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

polyseme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

polyseme
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

polyseme
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

polyseme
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

polyseme
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

polyseme
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

polyseme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

polyseme
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

polyseme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of polyseme

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYSEME»

The term «polyseme» is barely ever used and occupies the 198.868 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of polyseme
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «polyseme».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYSEME» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «polyseme» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «polyseme» 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 polyseme

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYSEME»

Discover the use of polyseme in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to polyseme and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Insights into Non-native Vocabulary Teaching and Learning
In the case of pata, both students who had provided a polyseme on Test 1 provided the correct 'paws' on Test 2. It appears that they did not have prior knowledge, however, because both provided explanations indicating that the context had ...
Rubén Chacón-Beltrán
2
A Basis for Scientific and Engineering Translation: ...
The polyseme group entered at distance indicates that, according to the context, the German equivalent could be Strecke, Weg, Weite, terms which are themselves polysemous: This is evident in the TPD. To obtain familiarity with the  ...
Michael Hann, 2004
3
The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition: Volume 2: ...
The childmustlearn that retrieval ofone of these forms should inhibit retrievalofthe others. 8.4. Rule Acquisition (Operating Principles10and 15) When amorpheme has morethan one polyseme,the most frequently usedalternative should be the ...
Dan Isaac Slobin, 2013
4
The Key to Technical Translation
The rest of the Guide concerns the dictionaries themselves, beginning with the first, the Polyseme Dictionary. 2 Polyseme Dictionary Approximately half the entries of the Polyseme Dictionary are arranged in conventional alphabetic order, and ...
Michael Hann, 1992
5
Similar Lexical Forms in Interlanguage
Learners who were familiar with one of the meanings of a polyseme/homonym did not abandon this meaning even though it did not make any sense in the context. For example, since in the sense of because was often interpreted as from the ...
Batia Laufer-Dvorkin, 1991
6
Kognitive Semantik /Cognitive Semantics
Thema dieses Aufsatzes ist hochgradige Polysemie und ihre Repräsentation. Polyseme Lexeme besitzen eine Vielzahl von Bedeutungen, zwischen denen semantische Beziehungen bestehen. Ansätze zur Beschreibung polysemer Lexeme ...
Monika Schwarz, 1994
7
How to Describe Grammar and Vocabulary in ELT: Key Theories ...
As mentioned above, in dictionaries, a polyseme is listed as one entry. The different meanings are num- bered and given separately in a sequential order that usually begins with the core meaning. The teacher can ask students to check a ...
Dilin Liu, 2013
8
The Hand of the Interpreter: Essays on Meaning After Theory
MATT BRIM Teaching the Touching Text; or, How to Lay 'Hands' on Your Students Perhaps one of the queerest linguistic units, a polyseme is a word with multiple, related meanings. Pointedly poly' rather than 'hetero', neither is the polyseme ...
G. F. Mitrano, Eric Jarosinski, 2009
9
Terminology in Everyday Life
What exactly is a polyseme? – How do I decide which polysemes should be in my term-base? – Should polysemes be included in the same record? – Do I need a different definition for each polyseme? – Do I need a contextual example for ...
Marcel Thelen, Frieda Steurs, 2010
10
Metaphor in Zulu
Metaphor Simplex Performance Competence Complex Polyseme Idiom Formator Formator The following diagram, adapted from Dagut (1976:24; 1978:99) illustrates the process: In defending the relevance of this qualitative distinction to  ...
Eric Hermanson, 2006

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLYSEME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term polyseme is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Chemical doublespeak
Double entendres are another potentially problematic, but clearly productive, subset of chemical polyseme. Leveraging language for this sort of ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
2
Is “shiksa” an insult?
“Shiksa,” then, should be understood as a polyseme whose two meanings are related — both the shiksa-hag and the shiksa-seductress are ... «Salon, Mar 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Polyseme [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/polyseme>. May 2024 ».
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