double meaning
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The situation in which a word or phrase has two different, often opposite, meanings. For example, wicked can mean both "good" and "bad".
noun
A deliberate construction that plays on two separate meanings of a word or words; a pun.
Example Sentences
- "It is important to note that connotation is different from an unambiguous “double meaning” or “pun.” With a pun both meanings have to be lexically current but with connotation it is the multiple, even ambiguous, associations of each word that are important.)"