HOMONYMY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (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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