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Definitions

homophones

NOUN
word pronounced the same as another, but differing in meaning
Synonyms
WEAK
homograph homonym


Example Sentences

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For more information about homophones, see Words and Language.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion.

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2019

Are you good at phrases that incorporate complicated Mandarin homophones?

From The Guardian • May 15, 2019

Kay and Kaye, thirty and thirty-one, are not related or married: their last names happen to be homophones.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2019

Such hieroglyphs are called homophones, and they are sometimes very numerous; for instance, as many as twenty hieroglyphs had each the value of a, and h was represented by at least thirty homophones.

From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by King, James