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Lexical Ambiguity

nounid 83456·updated May 18, 2026
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the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used in different contexts to express two or more different meanings

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Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

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Variants

synonym
polysemy
plural
Lexical Ambiguities
possessive
Lexical Ambiguity's
pluralpossessive
Lexical Ambiguities'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
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the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used in different contexts to express two or more different meanings
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used in different contexts to express two or more different meanings
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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