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HOMONYMY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does homonymy mean?
• HOMONYMY (noun)
The noun HOMONYMY has 1 sense:
1. the relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning
Familiarity information: HOMONYMY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("homonymy" is a kind of...):
linguistic relation (a relation between linguistic forms or constituents)
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