What's the word for a word that has multiple meanings?

[Bertha Venation]

Is there one?

[mockmonkey]

1. homonym?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym

or something listed at that link?

[Bertha Venation]

4. I think that's it. Thanks, mockmonkey

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Romney.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. I think you're thinking of a homograph

Same spelling, but different meanings.

[UTUSN]

5. Imprecise. Vague. Confusing. n/t

[HopeHoops]

6. It could be homonym (sounds the same), but euphemism also fits. Depends on the context.

Then there are words that ONLY have one meaning. As George Carlin famously said, "twat's twat and that's that." I think that was in the same skit with foods that have names too silly to eat - like head cheese and squash (sounds like somebody stepped on my food). Then there are cotton balls, the dreaded final stage of beer nuts. Man was he a genius.

Now if you're talking about words like "orange" that mean both the color and the fruit, I don't know of a word to describe that situation. Orange doesn't have a homonym because NOTHING rhymes with it. "Bird" can mean both the flying creature and one's middle finger. "Prick" can mean a penis or a wound from a needle or pin. Actual homonyms are things like "their", "there" and "they're" or "to", "too" and "two". You've got me stumped in the case of "orange".

[Festivito]

7. Double-entendre works for a phrase or a word.

Or the usual suspects:
Homonyms
Heteronyms <--different meanings, but spelled the same
Homographs
Homophones

[barnabas63]

8. Double - entendre means two meanings..not one......

Right?? Trying to think of one...

[Festivito]

9. Trying to think of one (unhyphenated) word, or one double-entendre?

Heteronym, or one as you used it suffices.

[Art_from_Ark]

11. With double-entendre, one of the meanings

is generally sexual or risque in nature.

[Festivito]

12. Usually. It comes from French after all.

We were horseback riding. He came up and said: "You have a good seat." I knew immediately that he loved me.

My mom used to sing: Did you ever see a housefly a house fly and house fly, did you ever see a housefly now you tell us one. ...

It doesn't have to be risque, it's just more intriguing.

[hobbit709]

10. Around here it commonly becomes a word the word police don't like.