polyseme
- Guideline or reference source
- ANSI/NISO Guidelines for the construction, format, and management of monolingual controlled vocabularies
- Definition
- A word with multiple meainings. in spoken language, polysemes are called homonyms; in written language they are called homographs. Only the latter are relevant to controlled vocabularies designed for textual information.
- Related Term
- acronym
- eponym
- synonym
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