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HOMOPHONOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way
Example:
'horse' and 'hoarse' are homophonous words
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Pertainym:
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))
Derivation:
homophony (the same pronunciation for words of different origins)
