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HOMONYM

• HOMONYM (noun)
The noun HOMONYM has 1 sense:

1. two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings

Familiarity information: HOMONYM used as a noun is very rare.

• HOMONYM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("homonym" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "homonym"):

homograph (two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair))

homophone (two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear))

"Early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese."
(English proverb)
"The nice apples are always eaten by nasty pigs."
(Bulgarian proverb)
"A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being."
(Arabic proverb)
"After rain comes sunshine"
(Dutch proverb)

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