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homonym â(plural homonyms). ( 1 semantics, strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning. ( 2 loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning, technically called a homophone (same sound) or a homograph (same spelling).
Meaning: Two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings. Classified under: Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.Hypernyms (homonym is a kind of...):omograph (two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair)). 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)).