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This course paper is an attempt to summarize some of the approaches to polysemy and to examine some of the concepts that occur in relation to polysemy. Polysemy is widespread in verbal communication. The main reason is that linguistic items are used “economically”: humans try to use already known terms, instead of creating complex sentences for each intended meaning they want to express. Taking into consideration the above mentioned, the most important goal of this term paper is the study the essential theoretical problems dealing with polysemy and to examine it as an aspect of a broader theory of word meaning. The objectives of the paper are the following: 1. To study the linguistic literature on the general and special problems of polysemy; 2. To explain the interpretation of polysemy in context; 3. To analyse difficulties that appears in translating polysemy from English to Russian