homophone
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But while her lyrics describe situations both grave and dangerous—the record’s title is a homophone for “violence”—her words are peppered with bizarre humor and images that aren’t easy to decode.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The name 99 Ranch Market comes from the lucky number 99, which is a homophone for the word “long-lasting” in Chinese.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
A teacher hoisted a huge sunflower made from dozens of balloons -- the plant's name in Mandarin is a homophone for a Chinese idiom about success.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
But the WHO decided a homophone for “new” would be too confusing.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
The word homophone is not recognized by Johnson or by Richardson: Johnson under homo- has six derivatives of Herbert Spencer's favourite word homogeneous, but beside these only four other words with this Greek affix.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges
In characteristic Midwest American English words such as cot and caught are pronounced as homophones.
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
When two or more words different in origin and signification are pronounced alike, whether they are alike or not in their spelling, they are said to be homophonous, or homophones of each other.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges
Vocabulary lists containing homophone
Language and Grammar - Introductory
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Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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