This article analysizes the difficulty of distinguishing between polysemy and homonymy, their meaning and the differences between them according to using in different context. The issue of developing an integrated approach to the study of such a phenomenon in lexicology as polysemy and homonomy seems interesting and especially topical at the present time due to the huge number of polysemantic words both in English and other languages, which is the relevance of this scientific article.

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