👉 Plurivalent is a concept in linguistics that refers to a language or language system where each word has two or more meanings. This can be seen as an extension of the idea of a monolingual world, which is one where only one meaning is possible for any single word. In other words, plurivalent languages are like languages where different meanings can coexist within a single word. For example, in English, "cat" has multiple meanings (e.g., small mammal, domestic