word sense

1. 1.

   the accepted meaning of a word

   Synonymsword meaningacceptation

   Broadersense

Questions about word sense

What does word sense mean?

word sense means "the accepted meaning of a word".

What is another word for word sense?

Close synonyms include word meaning, acceptation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is word sense a common word?

word sense is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.