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PRONUNCIATION OF POLYSEMOUS

polysemous  [pɒˈlɪsəməs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLYSEMOUS

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

WHAT DOES POLYSEMOUS 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 polysemous in the English dictionary

The definition of polysemous in the dictionary is having several meanings.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POLYSEMOUS


agamous
ˈæɡəməs
anadromous
əˈnædrəməs
autonomous
ɔːˈtɒnəməs
bigamous
ˈbɪɡəməs
calamus
ˈkæləməs
cryptogamic
krɪpˈtɒɡəməs
cryptogamous
krɪpˈtɒɡəməs
dichotomous
daɪˈkɒtəməs
hippopotamus
ˌhɪpəˈpɒtəməs
hyoscyamus
ˌhaɪəˈsaɪəməs
hypothalamus
ˌhaɪpəˈθæləməs
infamous
ˈɪnfəməs
monogamous
məˈnɒɡəməs
nonautonomous
ˌnɒnɔːˈtɒnəməs
polygamous
pəˈlɪɡəməs
Pyramus
ˈpɪrəməs
rhythmus
ˈrɪðəməs
semi-autonomous
ˌsɛmɪɔːˈtɒnəməs
thalamus
ˈθæləməs
venomous
ˈvɛnəməs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLYSEMOUS

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLYSEMOUS

Alcoholics Anonymous
anonymous
blasphemous
endogamous
enormous
eponymous
famous
Gamblers Anonymous
ginormous
houmous
magnanimous
posthumous
pseudonymous
pusillanimous
racemous
ramous
squamous
synonymous
unanimous
world-famous

Synonyms and antonyms of polysemous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «polysemous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLYSEMOUS

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

Translator English - Chinese

多义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

polisémico
570 millions of speakers

English

polysemous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

polysemous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متعدد المعاني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

многозначен
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

polissêmico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

polysemous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

polysémique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Polysemous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

polysem
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

多義の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

polysemous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Polysemous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đa nghĩa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

polysemous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोलिसीस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çokanlamlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

polisemico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

polysemous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

багатозначний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

polisemantic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

polysemous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

poliseme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mångtydig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

polysemous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of polysemous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYSEMOUS»

The term «polysemous» is normally little used and occupies the 124.991 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYSEMOUS» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYSEMOUS»

Discover the use of polysemous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to polysemous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected Papers from the ...
PROCESSING POLYSEMOUS, HOMONYMOUS, AND VAGUE ADJECTIVES FRANK BRISARD, GERT VAN RILLAER & DOMINIEK SANDRA University of Antwerp In this paper, we investigate, through a series of online experiments, the  ...
H. Cuyckens, Britta Zawada, 2001
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WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database
Corpus-based approaches typically train a statistical classifier on contexts containing a polysemous word in a known sense. Based on what it has found in the training, the classifier assigns a sense to novel occurrences of the polysemous ...
Christiane Fellbaum, 1998
3
The Nature of Homonumous and Polysemous Relations in Ekegusii
This text examines homonymy and polysemy in Ekegusii, a Bantu language in Kenya. The text is based on a research carried out at the master s level at Kenyatta University in Kenya.
Solomon Aunga, 2012
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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: ...
Multilingual WSD evaluation on word pairs and on polysemous words Table 2. Polysemy reduction using soft multilingual disambiguation annotated in the corpus are actually in the Italian WordNet. We evaluated our WSD method on the  ...
Alexander Gelbukh, 2005
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Aspects of Language Production
Such aspects of the behaviour of polysemous words have led to certain researchers arguing that the meanings of a polysemous word form a network of discrete senses each linked to one another via processes of metaphor and metonymy ...
Linda Wheeldon, 2013
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English Historical Linguistics 2008: Words, texts and genres
... 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 5 0 0 1 6 0 0 1 7 0 0 1 8 0 0 1 9 0 0 1 10 0 0 1 11 0 0 1 12 0 0 1 13 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 1 14792 monosemous nouns A v e rag em i n i m a l l eng t h Monosemous + polysemous 1.00 3.00 5.00 7.00 9.00 11.00 13.00 1 ...
Ursula Lenker, Hans Sauer, Judith Huber, 2012
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Text, Speech and Dialogue: 13th International Conference, ...
13th International Conference, TSD 2010, Brno, Czech Republic, September 6- 10, 2010.Proceedings Petr Sojka, Aleš Horak, Ivan Kopecek, Karel Pala. Table 3. Overall results number of retrieved words number of retrieved polysemous words  ...
Petr Sojka, Aleš Horak, Ivan Kopecek, 2010
8
Cognitive Processing of the Chinese and the Japanese Languages
s model, then, polysemous words are assumed to be represented by a single lexical-level unit which is connected to multiple meaning-level units. As Balota and Paul (1996) have suggested, however, it would also be possible to assume that a ...
C.K. Leong, Katsuo Tamaoka, 1998
9
Pattern Recognition and Machine Vision
2.3.3 Identifying Sense of Polysemous Words Using lineinteresthardserve Data Sets We test our model for WSD on the data sets line, hard, serve, and interest. The senses' descriptions and instances' distributions can be found in [11] and [3].
Patrick Shen-Pei Wang, 2010
10
English Computer Corpora: Selected Papers and Research Guide
If we look at the distribution of these labels across polysemous and non- polysemous entries, there is only a slight difference; see Table 4.4 Table 4 The labels are more or less equally distributed over polysemous and non- polysemous senses ...
Stig Johansson, Anna-Brita Stenström, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLYSEMOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term polysemous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ales Kot's highly ambitious Zero explores the deep roots of violence
In this way, his already polysemous comics take on another layer, and they act as vehicles for and documentation of his personal engagement ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Jul 15»
2
TAKING IT PERSONALLY Comments on Isabelle Graw's Concept of …
... nor ideologically concerned with its own medium-specificity, painting can be construed as a medium-unspecific art, polysemous, and beside ... «Brooklyn Rail, Jul 15»
3
Chinese researchers' artificial intelligence outwits humans on verbal …
"For each polysemous word (those with multiple meanings), we retrieve its number of senses from a dictionary, and conduct clustering on all its ... «Anhui News, Jul 15»
4
New AI Scores Higher on an IQ Test than the Average Human
... verbal portion requires knowledge of the nuances of polysemous words (words with multiple meanings) and the relationships between them. «Outer Places, Jun 15»
5
Sources of the self
By the same token, these are the characteristics which make his poetry polysemous. Iqbal took upon himself to infuse new meaning into ... «The News International, Jun 15»
6
Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the …
(Scholars label the multiple meanings of a signifier as multivalent or polysemous.) Around the same time as the NRA incident, comedian Louis ... «PopMatters, May 15»
7
Simon Pegg is wrong – comics aren't an escape from reality, they …
In an article this month for the New Yorker, Jill Lepore also seemed to struggle with the polysemous nature of comics. She suggested that ... «The Guardian, May 15»
8
New algorithm improves computer understanding of text
While “big” and “large” are synonymous, “wind” is polysemous. Congle Zhang, who completed his undergraduate degree in Shanghai and is ... «Dailyuw, May 15»
9
Exercise: Slovaks still drawn to satellite towns
But polysemous words have a common root and related meanings. Read the main article about Satellites and answer the following questions. «The Slovak Spectator, Mar 15»
10
English in K to 12
... words or expressions that complete an analogy, gives the various meanings of identified homonymous or polysemous words or expressions, ... «Philippine Star, Mar 15»

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