Homophonous

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of the same pitch; of like sound.
  • In philology: Agreeing in sound but differing in sense. See homophone, 2.
  • Expressing the same sound or letter with another: as, a homophonous hieroglyphic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a homophone or homophony.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having the same pronunciation.
  • adjective. homophonic; sounding the same
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  • adjective. characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way
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