See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com. 2. fealty, devotion, constancy. Loyalty, allegiance, fidelity all imply a sense of duty or of devoted attachment to something or someone. Loyalty connotes sentiment and the feeling of devotion that one holds for one's country, creed, family, friends, etc. Allegiance applies particularly to a citizen's duty to his or her country, or, by extension, one's obligation to support a party, cause, leader, etc.
A misnomer is a word or term that suggests a meaning that is known to be wrong.
In linguistics , a homonym is , in the strict sense , one of a group of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings. [ 1 ] Thus homonyms are simultaneously homographs ( words that share the same spelling , irrespective of their pronunciation ) and homophones ( words that share the same pronunciation , ...