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homonyms

homonyms is the plural of homonym.

Meaning of homonym

Noun

homonym (plural homonyms)

  1. (broadly, strictly) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
  2. (broadly) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.

Questions about homonyms

What is homonyms the plural of?
Homonyms is the plural of homonym.

Words near homonyms in the dictionary

  1. homonymity
  2. homonymophobia
  3. homonymous
  4. homonymously
  5. homonymphobia
  6. homonyms
  7. homonymy
  8. homooctamer
  9. homooctameric
  10. homooctamers
  11. homooligomer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homonyms (page history and authors); homonym (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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