24 Word Senses
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چکیده
What is the meaning of a word? Unless one believes that we are born with an innate set of meanings waiting to find their corresponding expression in language, another option is that we learn the meaning of a word by observing how it is used by the language community we are born in. Some usages find their way into dictionaries and become established word senses. In order to understand what constitutes a word sense, we can look at the criteria lexicographers use when they decide that a word usage is a word sense and record it in a dictionary for future generations.
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