palavra-ônibus

Portuguese

Etymology

Literally, “bus-word”

Noun

palavra-ônibus f (plural palavras-ônibus)

  1. (Brazil, linguistics) polysemous word: specifically, word with a network of multiple, related, context-dependent senses, eluding formal definition

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