homonym

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Washington Times

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

From BBC

It’s also a linguistic pun: the Mandarin word for “dust,” chén, is a homonym for the word “old.”

From Seattle Times

A math equation refers to its creator, Alexander Friedmann, whose surname is a homonym for “free man.”

From New York Times