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Linguistics concept about meaning of words according to a context

How is called in linguistics the fact some words have a meaning only with other words? Words that have many context-dependent meanings are called polysemes. … Although their meaning depends usually on much more than just other words in the sentence – it's often affected by intonation, broader context of the sentence, opinions of the speaker and much more. …
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