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The phenomenon, where a single word is associated with two or several related meanings, is known as
Answer: C
The phenomenon is polysemy.
Polysemy is the case of one word having several related meanings, all derived from a common core. 'Head', for example, can mean the top part of the body, the leader of an organisation or the top of a page, and all these senses are connected by the idea of 'top' or 'chief'.
Homonymy and homonyms are different words that happen to share a form but have unrelated meanings, such as 'bank' of a river and 'bank' for money. A homograph is a word spelled like another but different in meaning and often in pronunciation, such as 'lead' (metal) and 'lead' (guide).
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