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> Plenty of words have multiple meanings in normal and formal English.

There are some stats from Wordnet on polysemy in English. Obviously this depends on the granularity of a set of senses in a dictionary, but regardless English has many polysemous words (26,000+ according to Wordnet). And more importantly, these polysemous words also tend to be the most common words, hence words like "set" having around 120 definitions in the Oxford English dictionary.

https://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/man/wnstats.7WN.html#s...




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