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TIL the word run has 396 definitions. As of 2011 the word with the most definitions.
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Don_Dickle lemmy.world Patnou@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-11-30
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Link: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/which-word-has-the-most-definitions-4077796
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ThatWeirdGuy1001 lemmy.world ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-03
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Huh. I was always led to believe the word "set" had the most definitions but thinking about it run clearly has more
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hogmomma lemmy.world hogmomma@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-24
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ThatWeirdGuy1001 wrote:
Huh. I was always led to believe the word "set" had the most definitions but thinking about it run clearly has more

Nah, set only has 395.
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bungle_in_the_jungle lemmy.world bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
#4 · Quote Reply

That's the current running total
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Davel23 fedia.io Davel23@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-03-16
#5 · Quote Reply
ThatWeirdGuy1001 wrote:
Huh. I was always led to believe the word "set" had the most definitions but thinking about it run clearly has more

From the article:

If you are going to answer a trivia question about which English word has the most definitions, your answer might depend on when the question was written. The old champion was the word "set," which had 430 definitions in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary published in 1989. This record was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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ThatWeirdGuy1001 lemmy.world ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-03
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Davel23 wrote:
From the article: If you are going to answer a trivia question about which English word has the most definitions, your answer might depend on when the question was written. The old champion was the word "set," which had 430 definitions in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary published in 1989. This record was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records.

I knew I wasn't crazy

I'm just old
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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks programming.dev zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-19
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Does run as the identifier for the word run (like in the title) count or not since every word has that property?
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