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[akkers]

Polish can mean Polish ( as in furniture polish) and also someone who is from Poland. What other words have 2 totally different meanings but are spelt exactly the same?

[ravenhair]

There are far too many homographs (for that is what they're called) to list them here. Bear/bear, pine/pine, cross/cross . . . there are thousands in the English language.

[incitatus]

My favourite is cleave which means the opposite of itself. One can cleave things apart or cleave them together.

[ravenhair]

A contronym, that's called . . . yip, those are good. Fix might be another one (repair and castrate)?

[tarason]

Also Right/Right (Rights of man/Right-Left) The interesting thing is you also get the SAME double meaning in french - Droite/Droite - Are there many other multi-lingual homographs