English Dictionary

double meaning

noun

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

The comedian's joke had a double meaning.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

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.)