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homonym

Noun

Meaning

A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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He notes that Sun is a homonym for Son, and that Wheatley intended a double reference to Christ. Source: Internet

Polar questions are indicated with interrogative particles, most commonly /teː/ a homonym of the negation particle. Source: Internet

He went on to say, “The beauty of the word Salam is that it is a homonym. Source: Internet

This does not necessarily mean that one of the phonemes is absent in the homonym accent; merely that it is not contrastive in the same range of contexts. Source: Internet

Many of us have read unending ad homonym pieces about the sins of others in what could be considered destructive thinking. Source: Internet

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