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
It’s also a linguistic pun: the Mandarin word for “dust,” chén, is a homonym for the word “old.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2023
The word chac is often used in local names in Yucatan, and usually means either “water” or “red,” as it is a homonym with several significations.
From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
