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Examples
- broad sense
- cite, sight, site
- gnu, knew, new, nu
- principal, principle
- right, rite, wright, write
- to, too, two
- vain, vane , vein
- way, weigh, whey
- your, you're
- strict sense
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Comprehensive lists run to thousands of pairs and are available in reference works such as Hobbs 2006.[1]
From Latin homōnymum, from Ancient Greek ὁμώνυμον (homṓnumon), nominalized from the neuter of ὁμώνῠμος (homṓnŭmos, “homonymous”).[2][3] By surface analysis, homo- + -onym.
homonym (plural homonyms)
- (loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
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Hypernyms: word, term
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Hyponyms: homograph (same spelling), homophone (same sound)
- (semantics, strictly) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
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Hypernyms: word, term
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Coordinate term: polyseme
- (taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.
- Homonyms (in the broader sense) are divided into the two overlapping subcategories homographs and homophones. Examples:
- die and dye (homophones but not homographs)
- the parasitic flatworm called the fluke, the fish called the fluke, and a fluke, part of the tail of a whale (both homophones and homographs and therefore true homonyms in the strict sense)
- the metal lead and the present tense of the verb lead (homographs but not homophones)
word with the same sound or spelling
Euler diagram of choice semantic relations. Nyms (with category [cat] if any) Noun (cat) Sound Spelling Meaning phone/graph identical same same same homophone & homograph homophone (cat) same different different homophone & heterograph alternative spelling same different same homophone & heterograph homonym same same different homophone & homograph synonym different different same heterophone & heterograph heteronym (cat) different same different heterophone & homograph alternative pronunciation different same same heterophone & homograph distinct different different different heterophone & heterograph
- ^ Hobbs, James B. Homophones and Homographs: An American Dictionary. 4th edition. McFarland and Company; 2006. →ISBN
- ^ “homonym, n.”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “homonym, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
homonym (neuter homonymt, plural and definite singular attributive homonyme)
- homonymic
homonym
- homonym
homonym c
- homonym
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