English Explanatory Dictionary

homophone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
  2. A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.

Pronunciation

/ˈhɒməfəʊn/ /ˈhɑməfoʊn/ en-us-homophone.ogg /ˈhɔməfəʉn/ /homofon/ [ˈhɒ(ː)məfoːn]

Word forms

homophone homophones

Etymology

From French homophone; equivalent to homo- (“same”) + -phone (“sound”).

Related words

homophonous homophony near-homophone identical same homophone & homograph different homophone & heterograph alternative spelling homonym synonym heterophone & heterograph heteronym heterophone & homograph alternative pronunciation distinct

Derived words

homophonic pseudohomophone

Translations

Afrikaans: homofoon Arabic: لَفْظَة مُتَجَانِسَة Armenian: նույնահնչյուն բառ Bulgarian: омофо́н Catalan: homòfon Chinese Mandarin: 同音詞 /同音词 Chinese Mandarin: 同音字 Czech: homofon Czech: homofonum Danish: homofon Dutch: homofoon Esperanto: homofono Estonian: homofoon Finnish: homofoni French: homophone Friulian: omofon Georgian: ომოფონი German: Homophon Greek: ομόφωνος Hindi: समध्वनि Hungarian: homofon (not infrequently spelled homofón) Icelandic: samhljóma orð Ido: homofono Indonesian: homofon Irish: homafón Irish: téarma comhfhuaimneach Italian: omofono Japanese: 同音語 Kazakh: омофон Khmer: សូរដូច Khmer: កល្បសព្ទ Korean: 동음이의어 Northern Kurdish: hevdeng Northern Kurdish: homofon Lithuanian: homofonas Norwegian Bokmål: homofon Norwegian Nynorsk: homofon Portuguese: homófono Romanian: omofon Russian: омофо́н Serbo-Croatian: homofon Serbo-Croatian: istozvučnica Slovene: enakoglasnica Slovene: homofon Spanish: homófono Spanish: homófona Swedish: homofon Thai: คำพ้องเสียง
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