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oronyms

oronyms is the plural of oronym.

Meaning of oronym

Noun (1)

oronym (plural oronyms)

  1. The toponym of a mountain.

Noun (2)

oronym (plural oronyms)

  1. A phrase or sentence that sounds the same as another phrase or sentence.
    • […]sometimes what you hear isn't what you're supposed to hear. Oronyms are sentences that can be read in two ways with the same sound.[1980, Gyles Brandreth, The Joy of Lex, New York, NY, United States: William Morrow and Company, Inc., page 58

Questions about oronyms

What is oronyms the plural of?
Oronyms is the plural of oronym.

Words near oronyms in the dictionary

  1. Orontean
  2. Orontes
  3. Orontian
  4. oronym
  5. oronymies
  6. oronyms
  7. oronymy
  8. oropendola
  9. oropendolas
  10. Oropesa
  11. Oropesas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oronyms (page history and authors); oronym (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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