- plural of homophone.
homophones
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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)