MULTIVOCAL

Etymology

Adjective

multivocal (comparative more multivocal, superlative most multivocal)

Having many different interpretations, meanings, or values.

Source: Wiktionary


Mul*tiv"o*cal, a. Etym: [Multi- + vocal.]

Definition: Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." Coleridge.

– n.

Definition: A multivocal word. [R.] Fitzed. Hall.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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