1. the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings; [syn: polysemy, lexical ambiguity]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lexical ambiguity
n 1: the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be
used (in different contexts) to express two or more
different meanings [syn: polysemy, lexical ambiguity]
[ant: monosemy]