homonym

Example Sentences

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He included the bite mark for scale to set the apple apart from similar round fruit like cherries -- learning only later it was a homonym for the computer term "byte".

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

“This is really problematic,” Trinkle says, pointing out a word that has a homonym with a similar definition.

From Washington Times • May 29, 2023

The other constant is a sticky rice cake or nian gao, a homonym for "grow higher every year".

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2023

The last happened in 2018 when a competitor spelled a word’s homonym correctly without having been given the definition or told that a homonym existed.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2022

The drawing and colouring of this wall painting shows that Justus d’Allamagna was as surely a native of south Germany as his homonym at Urbino was a born Netherlander.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various