Homonym

//ˈhɒmənɪm//

Synonyms for "homonym" (49 found)

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Related words (24)

Noun(1 words)
polyseme

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7 relation types

More general

2 entries

Related terms

13 entries

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6 entries

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5 entries

Translations

47 translations across 40 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • homonim noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • ὁμώνυμος noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Armenian

1 entries
  • համանուն noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • омоним noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Catalan

1 entries
  • homònim noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries
  • omonim noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Czech

1 entries
  • homonymum noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Danish

1 entries
  • homonym noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Dutch

1 entries
  • homoniem noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • homonimo noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Finnish

1 entries
  • homonymia noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

French

1 entries
  • homonyme noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Georgian

1 entries
  • ომონიმი noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

German

2 entries
  • Homonym noun (word with the same sound or spelling)
  • Homonymum noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Greek

2 entries
  • ομώνυμο noun (word with the same sound or spelling)
  • ομώνυμος noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • הוֹמוֹנִים noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • azonos alakú szó noun (word with the same sound or spelling)
  • homonima noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Ido

1 entries
  • homonimo noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • homonim noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 同音異義語 noun (word with the same sound or spelling)
  • 同音語 noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Khmer

1 entries
  • កល្បពាក្យ noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Korean

1 entries
  • 동음이의어 noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Kumyk

1 entries
  • аваздаш noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Latin

1 entries
  • homonymum noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Malayalam

1 entries
  • നാനാർത്ഥം noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Manx

1 entries
  • co-ennym noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Māori

1 entries
  • kupu huarite noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Polish

1 entries
  • homonim noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • homónimo noun (word with the same sound or spelling)
  • homônimo noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Romanian

1 entries
  • omonim noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Russian

1 entries
  • омо́ним noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • homonim noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Slovene

2 entries
  • enakozvočnica noun (word with the same sound or spelling)
  • homonim noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Spanish

1 entries
  • homónimo noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Swedish

1 entries
  • homonym noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Tamil

1 entries
  • பல்பொருள் ஒருசொல் noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Thai

1 entries
  • คำพ้องความหมาย noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Turkish

2 entries
  • homonim noun (word with the same sound or spelling)
  • sesteş noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • омо́нім noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Venetan

1 entries
  • omònemo noun (word with the same sound or spelling)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

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I don't know any Tajik homonym.

Source: tatoeba (10073870)

When I was creating Viko, one of my first conlangs, I made the mistake of leaving the homonym switch on during the vocabulary generation. Someone on the Web alerted me, and I redid my vocabulary generation with the homonym switch off.

Source: tatoeba (10526858)

"Weather" and "whether" are homonyms; be careful not to confuse them while writing. And of course neither should be confused with their other homonym, "wether", which refers to a castrated male goat.

Source: tatoeba (10622612)

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