Associations to the word «Homonym»

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

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Joseph Conrad