HOMOPHONOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homophonous mean? 

• HOMOPHONOUS (adjective)
  The adjective HOMOPHONOUS has 1 sense:

1. characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way

  Familiarity information: HOMOPHONOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMOPHONOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

'horse' and 'hoarse' are homophonous words

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Pertainym:

homophone (two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear))

Derivation:

homophony (the same pronunciation for words of different origins)