He donated a lot of money to charity.

Examples of homonyms and polysemy. Bat - a piece of sporting equipment used in baseballa winged animal associated with. The word Good in the following two examples. Polysemy can be defined as one form written or spoken having multiple meanings that are all related by extension.

Die and dye homophones but not homographs the parasitic flatworm called a fluke and fluke part of the tail of a whale both homophones and homographs and therefore true homonyms in the strict sense the metal lead and the present. A clear case of polysemy 2. In addition polysemy is differentiated from other phenomena that involve potential multiplicity of meaning.

The word boyfriend henna and said girlfriend lover. Homonyms its etymology definition. Polysemy is an interesting phenomenon that concerns cases in which a word or phrase enjoys multiple related meanings.

Indeed like true homonyms polysemous words must have identical pronunciation and different meanings. He left the bank half an hour ago. Means both alone and lonely a case of polysemy.

However although they are listed as different words in the dictionary they both derive from the Latin word. Head on the letter head shape and meaning head at. He forgot to milk the cow.

13 lignes A distinction is sometimes made between true homonyms which are unrelated in origin such as. Like synonyms but synonyms are different words with one meaning. Examples of homonyms are the pair stalk part of a plant and stalk followharass a person and the pair left past tense of leave and left opposite of right.