Homonymy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The quality or condition of being homonymous.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The property of being a homonym.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations.
  • n. Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Sameness of name with a difference of meaning; ambiguity; equivocation; specifically, in philology, the character of homonyms.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    linguistic relation   
    Cross Reference
    fallacy of homonymy    polysemy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ambiguity   
     
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