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
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
