Semantics | What Is Polysemy | Difference Between Polysemy And Homonymy | Distribution In Dictionary

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POLYSEMY: When a single form has multiple related meanings, the process is called polysemy.
EXAMPLES: A word such as “head” is a polysemous word as it can be:
1. The part of body
2. Head of a company
3. The starting point of a river
Foot can be
1. Part of body
2. Foot of mountain
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POLYSEMY AND HOMONYMY:
While words like bank have two unrelated meanings these are homonyms whereas in polysemy words have related more than one meanings.
DISTRIBUTION IN DICTIONARY: In some dictionaries homonyms are given in different entities whereas polysemous are given under a single entry.
Look up in Oxford, Cambridge, Longman etc.
WORDS MAY TREAT AS HOMONYMS AND POLYSEMOUS: Words like “date” are homonyms when the difference is following:
1. Date is a fruit
2. Date is a point of time.
While it is polysemous in “point of time”
1. A particular day
2. A meeting on a particular day.
3. A social meeting on a day.
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