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The article examines problems concerning the description of lexemes, their definitions and real or hypothetical limits that may result from questions presented in this context. The author discusses such distinctions as the meaning of a word as opposed to its use and the proper meaning of a word versus the so called additional meaning of a given expression. As a consequence, one of the most important tasks comes down to answering the question of what constitutes the idiolectal meaning and what factors have an influence on this process