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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpɒ.lɪ.siː.mi/ [UK], /pə.ˈlɪ.sɪ.mi/ [UK] Forms: polysemies [plural]
Etymology: From polyseme + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|polyseme|y}} polyseme + -y Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} polysemy (usually uncountable, plural polysemies)
  1. (semantics) The property of a word, sign or symbol that can represent multiple meanings, including multiple similar ones. Wikipedia link: polysemy Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Semantics Related terms: polysemic, polysemous, homonymy Translations (ability to have multiple meanings): polisemi [feminine] (Albanian), تَعَدُّدُ مَعَانٍ (taʕaddudu maʕānin) [masculine] (Arabic), բազմիմաստություն (bazmimastutʻyun) (Armenian), полисемия [Cyrillic] (Azerbaijani), polisemiya [Roman] (Azerbaijani), polisemia (Basque), полісемія (pólisjemija) [feminine] (Belarusian), liessteriegezh [feminine] (Breton), полисемия (polisemija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), polisèmia [feminine] (Catalan), 多義性 (Chinese Cantonese), 多义性 (english: do¹ ji⁶ sing³) (Chinese Cantonese), 一詞多義 (Chinese Mandarin), 一词多义 (yīcí duōyì) (Chinese Mandarin), 多義性 (Chinese Mandarin), 多义性 (duōyìxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), çoqmanalılıq (Crimean Tatar), polysémie [feminine] (Czech), polysemi [common-gender] (Danish), polysemie [feminine] (Dutch), polisemio (Esperanto), polysemia (Finnish), monimerkityksisyys (Finnish), polysémie [feminine] (French), polisemia [feminine] (Galician), პოლისემია (ṗolisemia) (Georgian), მრავალმნიშვენლიანობა (mravalmnišvenlianoba) (Georgian), Polysemie [feminine] (German), Mehrdeutigkeit [feminine] (German), πολυσημία (polysimía) [feminine] (Greek), poliszémia (Hungarian), polisemio (Ido), polisemi (Indonesian), ilchiallachas [masculine] (Irish), polisemia [feminine] (Italian), 多義性 (tagisei) (alt: たぎせい) (Japanese), полисемия (polisemiä) (Kazakh), 다의성 (dauiseong) (Korean), полисемия (polisemiya) (Kyrgyz), polisēmija [feminine] (Latvian), polisemija [feminine] (Lithuanian), polysemija [feminine] (Lower Sorbian), полисемија (polisemija) [feminine] (Macedonian), polysemi [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), polysemi [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), چندمعنایی (Persian), polisemia [feminine] (Polish), wieloznaczność [feminine] (Polish), polissemia [feminine] (Portuguese), polisemie [feminine] (Romanian), полисеми́я (polisemíja) [feminine] (Russian), многозна́чность (mnogoznáčnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), полисѐмија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), polisèmija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), polysémia [feminine] (Slovak), mnohoznačnosť [feminine] (Slovak), polisemija [feminine] (Slovene), večpomenskost [feminine] (Slovene), polisemia [feminine] (Spanish), polysemi [common-gender] (Swedish), çokanlamlılık (Turkish), полісемія (polisemija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), багатозначність (bahatoznačnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), polysemija [feminine] (Upper Sorbian), полисемия (polisemiya) [Cyrillic] (Uzbek), polisemiya [Roman] (Uzbek), amlystyredd [masculine] (Welsh)
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "mravalmnišvenlianoba",
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          "code": "de",
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
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          "code": "hu",
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          "code": "ga",
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        {
          "alt": "たぎせい",
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          "roman": "tagisei",
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          "code": "ko",
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          "code": "ky",
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          "code": "lv",
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          "code": "lt",
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          "code": "mk",
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          "code": "nb",
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          "code": "nn",
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
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          "code": "pl",
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          "code": "pl",
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          "code": "pt",
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            "feminine"
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
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          "code": "ru",
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          "word": "полисеми́я"
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          "code": "sh",
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            "feminine"
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          "code": "sh",
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          "code": "es",
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          "code": "uz",
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          "code": "cy",
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          "tags": [
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        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Armenian translations",
        "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
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        "Terms with Breton translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Cantonese translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Crimean Tatar translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
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        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
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        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Ido translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Kazakh translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Kyrgyz translations",
        "Terms with Latvian translations",
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        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Upper Sorbian translations",
        "Terms with Uzbek translations",
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      "code": "sq",
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      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "polisemi"
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "code": "hy",
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      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
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      "code": "az",
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      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
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      "code": "az",
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      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "pólisjemija",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "liessteriegezh"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "polisemija",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "полисемия"
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    {
      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "polisèmia"
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      "code": "yue",
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      "word": "多義性"
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      "code": "yue",
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      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "word": "多义性"
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      "word": "一詞多義"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "code": "crh",
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      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "word": "çoqmanalılıq"
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
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      "code": "eo",
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      "word": "polisemio"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "monimerkityksisyys"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "polysémie"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ka",
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      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "word": "პოლისემია"
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    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mravalmnišvenlianoba",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "word": "მრავალმნიშვენლიანობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Polysemie"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Mehrdeutigkeit"
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "polysimía",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "πολυσημία"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "word": "poliszémia"
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    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
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    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
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      "word": "polisemi"
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "polisemia"
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      "alt": "たぎせい",
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      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tagisei",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "word": "多義性"
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    {
      "code": "kk",
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      "roman": "polisemiä",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "word": "полисемия"
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "dauiseong",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "word": "다의성"
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      "code": "ky",
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      "roman": "polisemiya",
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      "word": "полисемия"
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      "code": "lv",
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      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "polisēmija"
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    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "polisemija"
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    {
      "code": "mk",
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      "roman": "polisemija",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
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      "word": "полисемија"
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    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "polysemi"
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    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "polysemi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "word": "چندمعنایی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "polisemia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "wieloznaczność"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "polissemia"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "polisemie"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "polisemíja",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "полисеми́я"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mnogoznáčnostʹ",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "многозна́чность"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "полисѐмија"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
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        "feminine"
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      "code": "sk",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "sk",
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      "code": "sl",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "večpomenskost"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "polysemija"
    },
    {
      "code": "hsb",
      "lang": "Upper Sorbian",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "polysemija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "polisemia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "polysemi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "word": "çokanlamlılık"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "polisemija",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "полісемія"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bahatoznačnistʹ",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "багатозначність"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "roman": "polisemiya",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "полисемия"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "polisemiya"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "ability to have multiple meanings",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "amlystyredd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "polysemy"
}

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