Name a polysemous word and two of its meanings.

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Name a polysemous word and two of its meanings.

A polysemous word is one spelling that carries more than one meaning. Here, the word bank fits perfectly because it can mean two very different things: a financial institution where you save or borrow money, and the land alongside a river. These two senses share the same word but refer to different concepts, illustrating polysemy—the same word with multiple meanings. The other options don’t show a single word with two meanings. They present either just one meaning for a word or two meanings for different words, which doesn’t meet the requirement of naming one word and two of its senses.

A polysemous word is one spelling that carries more than one meaning. Here, the word bank fits perfectly because it can mean two very different things: a financial institution where you save or borrow money, and the land alongside a river. These two senses share the same word but refer to different concepts, illustrating polysemy—the same word with multiple meanings.

The other options don’t show a single word with two meanings. They present either just one meaning for a word or two meanings for different words, which doesn’t meet the requirement of naming one word and two of its senses.

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