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Definition of Homonymy
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Homonymy
1. n. Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations.
Definition of Homonymy
1. Noun. (semantics) The property of being a homonym. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Homonymy
1. the condition of having the same name [n -MIES]
Medical Definition of Homonymy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Homonymy
Literary usage of Homonymy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"Even where the homonymy is significant, corresponding to some resemblance of ...
In short such homonymy never obscures the boundaries between these classes, ..."
2. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1881)
"... and homonymy pervaded all Aryan conversation centuries before there were ...
and homonymy cannot be shown, by a large selection of examples, to be, ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1881)
"... and homonymy pervaded all Aryan conversation centuries before there were ...
and homonymy cannot be shown, by a large selection of examples, to be, ..."
4. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1905)
"... will stand or fall according lo out's notion of homonymy. ... and again, if
not, whether the differences in the termination suffice to prevent homonymy. ..."
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