Associations to the word «Homonym»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
HOMONYM, noun. (semantics) (strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning.
HOMONYM, noun. (loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning, technically called a homophone (same sound) or a homograph (same spelling).
HOMONYM, noun. (taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.
Dictionary definition
HOMONYM, noun. Two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings.
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.