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homophones

NOUN
word pronounced the same as another, but differing in meaning
Synonyms
WEAK
homograph homonym


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From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

When the principal calls her Melanie, Wang’s heroine adopts three of her Mandarin name’s homophones: Mist, who can be invisible; Basket, carrier of her parents’ dreams; and Blue, her truest self.

From New York Times Dec. 3, 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

In dealing with facts of such complexity as the origin and insertion of muscles, it may be needful to have free recourse to the assistance of homophones, &c.

From Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget by Loisette, A. (Alphonse)



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