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homonym
Alternative clues for the word homonym
Word definitions for homonym in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context semantics strict sense English) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning. 2 (context loosely English) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a word spelled and pronounced the same as another but different in meaning," 1807, from French homonyme and directly from Latin homonymum (Quintilian), from Greek homonymon , neuter of homonymos , from homos "same" (see homo- (1)) + onyma , dialectal form ...
Usage examples of homonym.
Does that mean you ran into a homonym professionally, in your preparation of contracts, that brought about unexpected complications?
Venatician homonym he was certain he understood, they were intimately connected in the languages of Earth too.
Can anyone give me a group of four homonyms, four words all pronounced alike, with spelling and meaning different in each case?
I remember correctly, that homonyms are ambiguities that could cause trouble.
Hours into the game, we had to find homonyms in the menu of a restaurant, swim out to a dinghy in the middle of a lake, and go into a house party to retrieve a clue from kids who were staging a knife fight.
They were, it turned out, the surgically altered army of Eddie Cortez homonyms, who made it possible for him to be in so many places at so many times, in all the fabled five mansions.
He had tried hard to avoid homonyms, wanting to reserve the confusion of words that sounded alike but meant different things until they shared a larger vocabulary.
Ransaran was riddled with irregular verb forms, homonyms, synonyms, irregular spellings, nonstandard pronunciations, and appropriations from every other major language.
It had virtually no irregular verbs and very few homonyms, and a completely consistent phonetic spelling.
He was of course transfixed by any incidence of the word alcohol, and all its cognates and synonyms and homonyms.