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mul⋅tiv⋅o⋅cal

   [muhl-tiv-uh-kuhl]
–adjective
having many or different meanings of equal probability or validity: a multivocal word.
Origin:
1800–10; multi- + vocal
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Multivocal

Mul*tiv"o*cal\, a. [Multi- + vocal.] Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." --Coleridge. -- n. A multivocal word. [R.] --Fitzed. Hall.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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