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100 Examples of Monosemic Words
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
Monosemic Words
The monosemic words are those that have a single meaning, that is, their meaning is only one (the prefix mono- means "one") in any context. For example: dance, garlic, photography.
The polysemic wordsOn the contrary, they are those that can have more than one meaning, depending on the context in which they are used. For example: cure (priest) / cure (healing).
Examples of monosemic words
| abdomen | dance | effusiveness |
| Bee | whale | edge |
| attorney | flag | physiology |
| hug | barbarism | flowers |
| oil | bartender | Photography |
| oil | barricade | syringe |
| olive | battle | loyalty |
| throttle | baby | math |
| steel | scholarship | neutron |
| companion | beauty | nickel |
| creditor | benefactor | girlfriend |
| acrobat | bibliography | bread |
| attitude | peanut | gang |
| Aquarium | pan | umbrella |
| water | cacique | pasture |
| dressing | cadence | clown |
| adhesive | marble | kingdom |
| fortune teller | Coal | rural |
| adolescence | carriage | watermelon |
| adorer | color blind | forever |
| Garlic | dance | the ceiling |
| admiral | decline | keyboard |
| alchemy | decree | telephone |
| appendicitis | dedication | TV |
| astronomy | misshapen | truth |
| slime | delicacy | zinc |
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