It's amazing what can be done with words.
You can stir someone imagination
and emotion, you can insult, you can compliment,
you can create wonderful imagery, or those who
are not good with words, can develop other
means of communication. For example -
I remember living in a mixed multinational
community where children had no problem in
understanding each other despite the fact that none
of them spoke a shared language. Also on my travels
around through South America - having a very limited
basic understanding of Spanish - I never had a
problem communicating with people. Because people
tried to help.

Now back to words - another one has come to mind -
"mean."

meant, meaning - to have in mind as one's purpose or
intention. "Mean to talk to him about the show."

To intend for a particular purpose.
"They were meant for each other."

To intend to express or indicate -
"What do you mean by Liberal?"

To have as its sense or significance -
"The word Liberal means many things to many people."

To produce a result - " This means we can take a trip
to Paris."

To mean well - there are many meanings. Including to be
inferior, stingy, miserly.

To mean well - there are many meanings.
Foxy,
Yes, do-gooders come to mind !

A patient patient.

A signal signal.

I don't know of other languages that have multiple
meanings in the one word. I think that it's great
that despite the multitude of meanings we're still
able to communicate. (smile).

God, how much more of this can a koala bear ?