Usually means: Words sounding same, spelled differently.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word homophone:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. homophone: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. homophone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. homophone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. homophone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. homophone: Vocabulary.com
  6. homophone: Wordnik
  7. homophone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. homophone: Wiktionary
  9. homophone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. homophone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. homophone: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Homophone, homophone: Dictionary.com
  13. homophone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. homophone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Homophone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Homophone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. homophone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. homophone: Rhymezone
  19. Homophone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. homophone: Free Dictionary
  21. homophone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. homophone: 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. HOMOPHONE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. homophone: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. homophone: Wordcraft Dictionary

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See homophones as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (semantics) A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
noun:  A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.

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