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homonymy

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ho·mon·y·my  (h-mn-m, h-)
n. pl. ho·mon·y·mies
The quality or condition of being homonymous.
homonymy
the state or quality of a given word’s having the same spelling and the same sound or pronunciation as another word, but with a different meaning, as race ’tribe’ and race ’running contest.’ Cf. heteronymy. — homonym, n. — homonymous, adj.
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the state or quality of sounding identical, whether spelled identically or not, as bear and bare.
See also: Sound
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.homonymy - 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
linguistic relation - a relation between linguistic forms or constituents
Translations
homonymy [həˈmɒnɪmɪ] n → omonimia
homonymy [həˈmɒnɪmɪ] n → omonimia


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Homonymy is when the several meanings attaching to a character string are unrelated.
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Mary was the only one who employed a form of homonymy, that is, knowledge of sound relationships to guess the meaning of an unknown word.
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