摘要：Polysemic ｢多義語｣is a word that has more than one meaning and each of these meanings are relate to each other and can be described. In Japanese language there are many words that have more than one meaning. As example is verb deru (out), verb deru in another sense has been undergone and got extension meaning. Japanese language leaner usually found out that there was hard to interpret and understand about polysemic’s sentences. This situation hamper the process of Japanese language learning. This study was conducted to describe the meaning which include in verb deru and also the relation between the basic meaning and the expansion meaning of verb deru. in this research, bibliography method and note method was being used. The object of this research is sentences that in Botchan’s novel which has polysemic verbs. The analytical method that has been used in this research is a determining method which is used as a basic technique and as a equivalent relate technique. To analyze, the first thing to do is to decide the object which will be investigated from the data resource. Then, search and collect the sentences that has verb deru and decide the basic meaning, after that figure out the expansion meaning of verb deru. Finally, describe the relation between basic meaning and expansion meaning which has verb deru as a figure of speech that leverage the expansion meaning. Based from the data which has been got from data resource, the conclusion is resource come out 22 sentences. The basic meaning of deru is out 5 sentences, and as the expansion meaning has 9 meanings, there are join 1 sentence , go 1 sentence , leave 6 sentences, appear 2 sentences, happen 1 sentence, arise 1 sentence, arrive 3 sentences, attend 1 sentence, relapse 1 sentence. The expansion meaning is leveraged by metaphorical figure of speech.
