homonym

Example Sentences

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He included the bite mark for scale to set the apple apart from similar round fruit like cherries -- learning only later it was a homonym for the computer term "byte".

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Another popular hashtag they use is “address book,” a near homonym for “homosexual” in Chinese, which has also spawned the offshoot keywords “female notebook” or “male notebook.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024

“This is really problematic,” Trinkle says, pointing out a word that has a homonym with a similar definition.

From Washington Times • May 29, 2023

The other constant is a sticky rice cake or nian gao, a homonym for "grow higher every year".

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2023

In the latter, instead of the flower the boat contains the ara and a boy=ah or aah, whose name is the homonym for great, mighty, powerful, etc.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia