Homonym

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  • noun. 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).
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A word used to designate several different things.
  • noun. A namesake.
  • noun. A taxonomic name identical to one previously applied to a different species or other taxon and therefore unacceptable in its new use.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One word used to express distinct meanings, or applied as a name to different things: as, Heteropus is a homonym of eight different genera.
  • noun. In philology, a word which agrees with another in sound, and perhaps in spelling, but is not the same in meaning; a homophone: as, meet, meat, and mete, or the verb bear and the noun bear.
  • noun. Specifically, in systematic biology, a name given to a group (usually a genus or species) at a later date than that at which the same name had been given to another group.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. (strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning.
  • noun. A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning, technically called a homophone (same sound) or a homograph (same spelling).
  • noun. A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings
    • Word Usage
    "The first disagreement I have with her is in her use of the term homonym, which she defines as "[a word] looking the same, but differing in meaning"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    word  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    homograph  homophone  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    aspartic  electron-hole  electron-positron  enantiomeric  grand-ducal  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Doppelganger  actual thing  antonym  articulation  carbon copy  
    variant
    homonyme  
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