多義語

Japanese

Kanji in this term
多	義	語
た Grade: 2	ぎ Grade: 5	ご Grade: 2
on’yomi

Noun

多義語 (hiragana たぎご, rōmaji tagigo)

(linguistics, semantics) a polyseme, a word or expression with more than one meaning
- 2018 December 4 (last accessed) “Dai-nana kai, Tagigo wa gogen kara semeru [#7, Tackle polysemy from word roots]”, in Ei-tango no osae doko‎:
  
  皆 (みな)さん、capitalという単 (たん)語 (ご)を知 (し)っていますか。これは、俗 (ぞく)にいう、多 (た)義 (ぎ)語 (ご)と呼 (よ)ばれる単 (たん)語 (ご)になります。
  Mina-san, capital to iu tango o shitteimasu ka. Kore wa, zoku ni iu, tagigo to yobareru tango ni narimasu.
  Everyone, do you know the word capital? This is what is called a polysemous word.
polysemy, the quality of having more than one meaning

See also

多 (た)義 (ぎ) (tagi, “polysemy, multiple meanings”)

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