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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 meaningplay

  Familiarity information: HOMONYMY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HOMONYMY (noun)


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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