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The situation in which a word or phrase has two different, often opposite, meanings. For example, wicked can mean both good and bad.

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double meaning

Japanese Meaning

単語やフレーズが文脈によって二つの異なる、しばしば対照的な意味を持つ状態。 / 一語が複数の意味(特に互いに反対の意味)を持つ、多義性の状況。

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Her comment had a double meaning that left everyone unsure whether she was praising him or mocking him.

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彼女の発言には二重の意味があり、皆はそれが彼を褒めているのか嘲っているのか分からなかった。

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A deliberate construction that plays on two separate meanings of a word or words; a pun.

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.)

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