homophone
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The name 99 Ranch Market comes from the lucky number 99, which is a homophone for the word “long-lasting” in Chinese.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
A teacher hoisted a huge sunflower made from dozens of balloons -- the plant's name in Mandarin is a homophone for a Chinese idiom about success.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
But the WHO decided a homophone for “new” would be too confusing.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
It is a homophone for “heart” and “new.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
We have an occasional escape by using nay for no, since its homophone neigh is an unlikely neighbour; but that can serve only in one limited use of the word, and is no solution.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges
Students in the small, remote community of Estancia, N.M., were enthusiastically engaged in a vocabulary lesson, enunciating words with a “bossy r,” as well as homophones and homonyms, and spelling them on white boards.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2022
For more information about homophones, see Words and Language.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2019
Are you good at phrases that incorporate complicated Mandarin homophones?
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2019
The first essential, then, is to know the extent and nature of the mischief; and this can only be accomplished by setting out the homophones in a table before the eye.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges
Vocabulary lists containing homophone
Language and Grammar - Introductory
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Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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