Words take on many different meanings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
Words are just words.
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.