homophones
Example Sentences
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Here are some common homophones and their meanings:
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
True homophones are separate words which have, or have acquired, an illogical fortuitous identity.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Bridges, Robert Seymour
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
