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mondegreens

mondegreens is the plural of mondegreen.

Meaning of mondegreen

Noun

mondegreen (plural mondegreens)

  1. A form of (possibly intentional) error arising from mishearing a spoken or sung phrase, possibly in a different language.
    • Our report of a relative who, as a child, thought the classic version of the Lord's Prayer began "Our father, a chart in heaven, Harold be thy name" stated that this type of mistake is known as an eggcorn. A number of readers have suggested that instances like this in which a whole phrase rather...2006 November 18, “Feedback”, in New Scientist, archived from the original on 24 May 2016, page 218
    Synonyms:
    mishearing
  2. (rare) A misunderstanding of a written or spoken phrase as a result of multiple definitions.

Questions about mondegreens

What is mondegreens the plural of?
Mondegreens is the plural of mondegreen.

Words near mondegreens in the dictionary

  1. Mondayness
  2. Mondays
  3. monde
  4. Mondego
  5. mondegreen
  6. mondegreens
  7. Mondello
  8. Mondellos
  9. Mondeo Man
  10. Mondeo Men
  11. mondes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mondegreens (page history and authors); mondegreen (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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