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Word that sounds like another word, like "main," "mane," and "Maine"
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homonym
Alternative clues for the word homonym
Word definitions for homonym in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Homonym may refer to: Homonym , a name or word with more than one distinct meaning Homonym (biology) , a taxon identical in spelling to a name belonging to a different taxon
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Ensure that synonyms and homonyms are recognised. ▪ If the homonyms are the same part of speech, they are distinguished by superior numbers following the part-of-speech label. ▪ Some lexical sets are also included, such as homographs ...
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.