TIL the word run has 396 definitions. As of 2011 the word with the most definitions.

https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/which-word-has-the-most-definitions-4077796

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ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 65d (3 replies)

Huh. I was always led to believe the word "set" had the most definitions but thinking about it run clearly has more

Davel23@fedia.io · 12 pts · 65d (1 reply)

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.

ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 65d

I knew I wasn't crazy

I'm just old

hogmomma@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 65d

Nah, set only has 395.

FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 65d

Run, DMC.

I'm coming.

bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 65d

That's the current running total

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 1 pts · 65d

Does run as the identifier for the word run (like in the title) count or not since every word has that property?