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Polyseme vs Polyreme - What's the difference?

polyseme | polyreme |

As nouns the difference between polyseme and polyreme

is that polyseme is (linguistics) a word or phrase that has multiple meanings while polyreme is (nautical) a very large galley with more than five rows of oars on each side.

As an adjective polyseme

is (linguistics) having multiple meanings.

polyseme

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) A word or phrase that has multiple meanings.

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (linguistics) having multiple meanings

    • Related terms

    * polysemic * polysemy

    Antonyms

    * monoseme

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    polyreme

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A very large galley with more than five rows of oars on each side

    • Anagrams

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