homophones
Example Sentences
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In characteristic Midwest American English words such as cot and caught are pronounced as homophones.
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
When two or more words different in origin and signification are pronounced alike, whether they are alike or not in their spelling, they are said to be homophonous, or homophones of each other.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Bridges, Robert Seymour
