单词 | neosemanticism |
释义 | neosemanticismn. A newly acquired sense of a word or phrase; (also) a word or phrase that acquires a new meaning. ΚΠ 1980 Amer. Speech 55 184 Neosemanticisms..are words or groups of words already in the language that acquire fresh meanings by use in new situations. 1984 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 71. 54 Both..emphasized the desirability of an active and growing file of citations of neologisms and neosemanticisms. 1989 Internat. Jrnl. Lexicography 2 94 A great many key words become highly equivocal—they become neosemanticisms. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1980 |
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