homonym
A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another wordA word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).: A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
» In English "blue" and "blew" are homonyms.
Слова "blue" и "blew" в английском языке являются омофонами.
Слова "blue" и "blew" в английском языке являются фонетическими омонимами.
Meaning
2 sensesA word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
(broadly)A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
Homonym, Homonymum
омо́нимomónim
омо́німomónim
(broadly)A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.
- two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings
Examples
8 sentencesIn English "blue" and "blew" are homonyms.
ruСлова "blue" и "blew" в английском языке являются омофонами. — odexed
Sinograms have been conserved because of the large number of homonyms in their languages.
These are homonyms.
ruЭто омонимы. — LanguagesLover
I don't know any Tajik homonym.
"Panpsychism" and "pantheism" are homonyms in Japanese—"hanshinron." They have different kanji.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
From Latin homōnymum, from Ancient Greek ὁμώνυμον (homṓnumon), nominalized from the neuterFrom Latin homōnymum, from Ancient Greek ὁμώνυμον (homṓnumon), nominalized from the neuter of ὁμώνῠμος (homṓnŭmos, “homonymous”). By surface analysis, hom- + -onym.
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