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The answer HOMONYM has 34 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of homonym in various dictionaries:
noun - two words are homonyms if they are pro noun ced or spelled the same way but have different meanings
One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning.
A word that is used to designate several different things.
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| each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins (e.g. |
| two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings |
| Each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins. |
| a word that sounds the same or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning: |
| a word that is spelled the same as another word but that does not have the same meaning: |
| A homonym is also a homophone. |
| One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning, such as bank (embankment) and bank (place where money is kept). |
| A word used to designate several different things. |
| A namesake. |
| Biology A taxonomic name identical to one previously applied to a different species or genus and therefore unacceptable in its new use. |
| Homonym might refer to |
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| In linguistics, homonyms, broadly defined, are words which sound alike or are spelled alike, but have different meanings. A more restrictive definition sees homonyms as words that are simultaneously homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of their pronunciation) and homophones (words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of their spelling) that is to say they have identical pronunciation and spelling, whilst maintaining different meanings. The relationship between a set of homonyms is called homonymy. Examples of homonyms are the pair stalk (part of a plant) and stalk (follow/harass a person) and the pair left (past tense of leave) and left (opposite of right). A distinction is sometimes made between true homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate (glide on ice) and skate (the fish), and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a shared origin, such as mouth (of a river) and mouth (of an animal).In non-technical contexts, the term "homonym" |