homonym
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of homonym
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (broadly)A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
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noun
- (broadly)A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
- (broadly)A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
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Etymology
From Latin homōnymum, from Ancient Greek ὁμώνυμον (homṓnumon), nominalized from the neuter of ὁμώνῠμος (homṓnŭmos, “homonymous”). By surface analysis, hom- + -onym.
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