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n. One of two or more words that have identical spellings but different meanings and pronunciations, such as row (a series of objects arranged in a line), pronounced (rō), and row (a fight), pronounced (rou).

n. A word having the same spelling as another, but a different pronunciation and meaning.

n. A fictitious character created by an author for the purpose of writing in a different style.

n. That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym.

n. A word having a different sound and meaning from another, but the same spelling, as lead, conduct, and lead, a metal: distinguished from homonym in a narrow sense—that is, a word having the same sound as another, but not the same spelling.

n. A different name of the same thing; a name in one language precisely translating a name in another language; a linguistic synonym, having literally the same meaning as some other word of another language.

n. two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation

"Their stories were varied enough that some of their pennames conveyed a "heteronym," a term coined by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa who wrote his poetry and prose under a variety of pen names."

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