Ambiguity vs. Pun — What's the Difference?

Ambiguity is a type of meaning in which a phrase, statement or resolution is not explicitly defined, making several interpretations plausible. A common aspect of ambiguity is uncertainty.

The pun, also known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language.

Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation

A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

Something of doubtful meaning

To make puns or a pun.

(countable) words or statements that are open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, especially if that meaning cannot be determined from its context.

(transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.

(uncountable) The state of being ambiguous.

(intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression.

A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

An expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context

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Unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning

To pound.

To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.

To persuade or affect by a pun.

A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.

A humorous play on words;

Make a play on words;