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homonymous

homonymous adjective: having the same name as another (i.e., like a namesake).

Adjective

homonymous (not comparable)

  1. Having the same name as another (i.e., like a namesake).
  2. Of or pertaining to a homonym.
  3. Having homonymous hemianopsia (blindness in the same side of both eyes)

homonymous meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

homonymous in Tamil

ஒருசேர்பக்க

homonymous in Tagalog

having the same name
magkalagyo, kalagyo

Antonyms of homonymous

Origin of homonymous

Adapted borrowing of Latin homōnymus (“having the same name”) + -ous, from Ancient Greek ὁμώνυμος (homṓnumos). By surface analysis, homonym + -ous.

Words formed from homonymous

Questions about homonymous

What does homonymous mean?
Homonymous means having the same name as another (i.e., like a namesake).
What is homonymous in Tamil?
Homonymous in Tamil is ஒருசேர்பக்க. See Homonymous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is homonymous?
Homonymous is an adjective.

Words near homonymous in the dictionary

  1. homonymic
  2. homonymical
  3. homonymies
  4. homonymity
  5. homonymophobia
  6. homonymous
  7. homonymously
  8. homonymphobia
  9. homonyms
  10. homonymy
  11. homooctamer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homonymous (page history and authors); homonymous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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