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Usually means: Word sounding like another, different meaning
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word homonym:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. homonym: Merriam-Webster
  2. homonym: Wordnik
  3. homonym: Cambridge English Dictionary
  4. homonym: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  5. homonym: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  6. homonym: Collins English Dictionary
  7. homonym: Vocabulary.com
  8. homonym: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. homonym: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. homonym: Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1997)
  11. Homonym, homonym: Dictionary.com
  12. homonym: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. homonym: Rhymezone (WordNet)
  14. homonym: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. homonym: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. homonym: TheFreeDictionary.com (American Heritage)
  17. homonym: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  18. homonym: Oxford English Dictionary

General (historical) (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HOMONYM: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. homonym: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

User-edited (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. homonym: Wiktionary
  2. homonym: Urban Dictionary
  3. Homonym (zoology), Homonym (botany), Homonym (biology), Homonym: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  3. HOMONYM: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. homonym: A Word A Day
  2. homonym: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See homonymic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (semantics, strictly) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
noun:  (loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
noun:  (taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.

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