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homonym

/hɒmənɪm/ noun · British & US
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What does homonym mean?

noun

A word that is pronounced and/or spelled the same as another word, but has a different meaning. In linguistics, a word that has multiple related or unrelated senses.

Example

"The words 'bank' (financial institution) and 'bank' (riverbank) are homonyms."

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