¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Homophones
1. homophone [n] - See also: homophone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homophones
Literary usage of Homophones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Literacy Centers Grades 2-3by Jo Ellen Moore by Jo Ellen Moore (2004)
"Name Set They Sound the Same Choose a card with a pair of homophones. Find the
two sentence cards in which the homophones fit. ..."
2. Building Spelling Skills: Grade 5 by Jo Ellen Moore (2002)
"... 9. o'clock 10. you're 11. who's 12. whose 13. aren't 14. it's 15. doesn't This
Week's Focus: • Spell contractions • Learn the homophones who's and whose ..."
3. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1885)
"... of Strife and War, aud its homophones. I have not yet met with any criticism
upon the remarks which I made upon the value of the hieroglyphic sign of ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The more we advance towards antiquity the more the method simplifie», and the
alphabet of primitive times admite but a very email number of homophones. ..."
5. The New Era Word Book by Homer Hitchcock Kingsley (1907)
"It is suggested that lessons be regularly assigned here, a column at a time, and
that pupils be required to use the homophones in sentences of their own ..."
6. The Monuments of Egypt: Or, Egypt a Witness for the Bible by Francis Lister Hawks (1850)
"Discovery of homophones.—Sir Gardner Wilkinson's tribute to Champollion.—Exposure
of the ignorance of the French savans, by Champollion. IT was in August, ..."
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