Usually means: Words same in sound, different meanings.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word homonym:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. homonym: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. homonym: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. homonym: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. homonym: Collins English Dictionary
  5. homonym: Vocabulary.com
  6. homonym: Wordnik
  7. homonym: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. homonym: Wiktionary
  9. homonym: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. homonym: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. homonym: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Homonym, homonym: Dictionary.com
  13. homonym: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. homonym: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Homonym (biology), Homonym (disambiguation), Homonym: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Homonym: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. homonym: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. homonym: Rhymezone
  19. Homonym: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. homonym: Free Dictionary
  21. homonym: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. homonym: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. homonym: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. homonym: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. homonym: Medical dictionary

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)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. homonym: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See homonymic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (semantics, strict sense) 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), technically called a homophone (same sound, different spelling) or a homograph (same spelling, different sound), or if both are the same, a homonym.
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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