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HOMOPHONOUS Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Homophonous is used to describe words that are pronounced exactly the same. If two words are described as homophonous, it means they are homophones.
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Homophone - Wikipedia
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning or in spelling. The two words may be spelled the same, ...
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homophonous - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Adjective · (phonetics, semantics) Having the same pronunciation. "Cot" and "caught" are homophonous in some American accents, as are "there" and "they're". · ( ...
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homophonous
homophonous, a. (həʊˈmɒfənəs) [f. as prec. + -ous.] 1. Mus. = homophonic 1.1753 in Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1872 F. Hüffer in Fortn. Rev. Mar. 271 The homophonous innocence of the Doric and Mixolydic scales. 2. Having the same sound; of the character of homophones (see homophone B. 1).1826 Edin. Rev. XL...
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HOMOPHONE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. grammar : one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling (such as the words to, too, and two)
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HOMOPHONOUS definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
-ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of” a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous)
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FEM (TV channel)
FEM (the first letters of the word "feminine" or "female" and roughly homophonous with femme, but also the Norwegian word for "five") is a Norwegian television
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Homophonous - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way.
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homophonous adjective - Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
(of a word) having the same pronunciation as another word but a different meaning or spelling. 'Bear' and 'bare' are homophonous. Topics Languagec2.
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homophonous, adj. meanings, etymology and more
homophonous is a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek ὁμόϕωνος, ‑ous suffix. See etymology. Nearby entries. homophilia, n.
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homophonous definition - Linguix.com
homophonous. ADJECTIVE. characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way `horse' and `hoarse' are homophonous ...
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Homophonous Definition & Meaning - YourDictionary
Having the same pronunciation. "Cot" and "caught" are homophonous in some American accents, as are "there" and "they're".
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monophonous
monophonous, a. rare. (məˈnɒfənəs) [Formed as monophone + -ous.] 1. Of a musical instrument: Producing only one note at a time.1878 J. Hullah in Grove's Dict. Mus. I. 47 An air is a composition for a single voice or any monophonous instrument. 2. = homophonous.1869 J. L. Nevins China xiv. 197 In our...
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Fu (character)
The Chinese character fu (), meaning 'fortune' or 'good luck' is represented both as a Chinese ideograph and, at times, pictorially, in one of its homophonous The reasoning is based on a wordplay: in nearly all varieties of Chinese, the words for and are homophonous.
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Do native speakers think of 固い・堅い・硬い as homophones, or as the same word? Japanese dictionaries often give distinguish among meanings for homophonous words with related meanings that have different kanji representation...
It is exactly as you suspect. It is totally illogical to consider , for example, to be three different words and here is why. Whenever you are dealing with a kun-reading word, you need to remind yourself that it existed when Japanese was merely a spoken language. We had no way of writing or even . A...
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