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
Correlate the homophone of the muscle to the first pair of words, and the first pair to the second pair.
From Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget by A. (Alphonse) Loisette
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
Kay and Kaye, thirty and thirty-one, are not related or married: their last names happen to be homophones.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
In talking with friends the common plea that I have heard for homophones is their usefulness to the punster.
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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