Heteronym vs. Homonym
Difference Between Heteronym and Homonym
Heteronym➦
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).
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Homonym➦
In linguistics, homonyms, broadly defined, are words which are homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of pronunciation) or homophones (words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of spelling), or both. For example, according to this definition, the words row (propel with oars), row (argument) and row (a linear arrangement) are homonyms, as are the words see (vision) and sea (body of water).
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Heteronym➦
(linguistics) A word having the same spelling as another, but a different pronunciation and meaning.
Agape, "astonished" or "wide open," is a heteronym of agape, "Christian love."
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Homonym➦
each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins.
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Heteronym➦
(literature) A fictitious character created by an author for the purpose of writing in a different style.
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Homonym➦
One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning, such as bank (embankment) and bank (place where money is kept).
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Heteronym➦
That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; - opposed to homonym.
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Homonym➦
A word used to designate several different things.
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Heteronym➦
two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation (e.g. `bow')
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Homonym➦
A namesake.
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Homonym➦
(Biology) A taxonomic name identical to one previously applied to a different species or other taxon and therefore unacceptable in its new use.
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Homonym➦
A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
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Homonym➦
(loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both), technically called a homophone (same sound, different spelling) or a homograph (same spelling, different sound), or if both are the same, a homonym.
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Homonym➦
(taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.
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Homonym➦
A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.
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Homonym➦
two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings
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