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homophone

POS

Noun

HYPHEN

hom=o=phone

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun homophone has 1 sense

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

is a kind of

homonym

Derived form adjective homophonic₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

homophone, n. [Cf. F. homophone. See Homophonous.].

A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. Gliddon. [1913 Webster]
A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

homophone, n.
1 a word having the same sound as another but of different meaning or origin (e.g. pair, pear).
2 a symbol denoting the same sound as another.

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