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homonym
noun as in word pronounced the same as another, regardless of meaning or spelling
Weak matches
- homograph
- homophone
Example Sentences
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.”
“This is really problematic,” Trinkle says, pointing out a word that has a homonym with a similar definition.
The other constant is a sticky rice cake or nian gao, a homonym for "grow higher every year".
It’s also a linguistic pun: the Mandarin word for “dust,” chén, is a homonym for the word “old.”
A math equation refers to its creator, Alexander Friedmann, whose surname is a homonym for “free man.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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