Homophone

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  • noun. One of two or more words, such as night and knight, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A letter or character expressing a like sound with another.
  • noun. A word having the same sound as another, but differing in meaning and usually in derivation, and often in spelling; a homonym.
  • noun. Same as homophony.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another.
  • noun. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
    • Word Usage
    "Homo means same and phone means sound, so the word homophone literally means same sound."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    homonym  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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