homophone

[ US /ˈhoʊmoʊˌfoʊn/ ]
[ UK /hˈɒməfˌə‍ʊn/ ]
NOUN
  1. two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
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How To Use homophone In A Sentence

  • But there are huge numbers of homophones that are also homographs: pen ‘writing implement’, pen ‘enclosure for animals’, and pen ‘penitentiary’, to choose a textbook example.
  • Similarly, English man 'male' and Persian /man/ 'I' are interlingual homophones. On false friends
  • I like my mores like I like my marriageson paper because polyamory is not bigamy more or less it is homophone homology the more the merrier love overturns amorphism Mores
  • The problem of spelling syllabic r (or final schwa) is compounded by numerous pairs of homophones.
  • Apart from the distressing number of literals and homophones which infest my proof copy, my main criticism is that she never quite succeeds in bringing her quicksilver subject into full view.
  • Homophone corner: "Holden's full green face paint for her role of Princess Fiona nicely complimented the bright orange phizog of the returning super-judge Simon Cowell" TV matters, 2 June, page 27, G2. Corrections and clarifications
  • It's tougher to find quadruple, quintuple, and sextuple homophones.
  • Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both.
  • Over time, the computer program learned to produce the correct meanings and pronunciations for almost all the words, including homophones such as ‘plane’ and ‘plain.’
  • They were not told that the words they would hear were homophones.
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