John was a good man.

Examples of homonyms and polysemy. Whereas a polysemy is simply one word with multiple meanings. Head on the letter head shape and meaning head at. In French for example.

Examples of Homograph 1. Bat - a piece of sporting equipment used in baseballa winged animal associated with. Homonyms its etymology definition.

He donated a lot of money to charity. Here are some examples-He caught a fish at the bank. He left the bank half an hour ago.

Hammer in sentence 5-a is a noun referring to. This word has a very large number of meanings. Examples are the word head used to refer to the object on top of your body on top of a glass of beer person at the top of a company or department and many other things.

However although they are listed as different words in the dictionary they both derive from the Latin word. The word boyfriend henna and said girlfriend lover. Bill was a good painter.

Bass - a deep voice or tonea kind of fish 6. In one case its a moral judgement in the other case its a judgement of skill. A distinction is sometimes made between true homonyms which are unrelated in origin such as skate glide on ice and skate the fish and polysemous homonyms or polysemes which have a shared origin such as mouth of a river and mouth of an animal.