homophones

[US]/'hɒməfəʊn/
[UK]/'hɑməfon/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. words that sound the same but have different meanings.

Example Sentences

No matter it is a homophone (phonogram) or a polysemous word, the point of the speaker is not the "similarity" but the equivocality.

Then, syllabary of homophones is made to give detail materials for understanding phonetic structure of Dongping dialect.The third part is phonological characteristics.

Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both.

The rhetorical device-pun intentionally uses homophone (phonogram) and polysemous words which can possible generate equivocality in order to punningly express what the speaker is really driving at.

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