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Meaning of "heteronym" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HETERONYM

From Late Greek heteronumos, from Greek hetero- + onoma name.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HETERONYM

heteronym  [ˈhɛtərəʊˌnɪm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HETERONYM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heteronym is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HETERONYM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Heteronym

Heteronym may refer to: ▪ Heteronym, one of a group of words with identical spellings but different meanings and pronunciations ▪ Heteronym, imaginary characters created by a poet...

Definition of heteronym in the English dictionary

The definition of heteronym in the dictionary is one of two or more words pronounced differently but spelt alike.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HETERONYM


autonym
ˈɔːtəˌnɪm
caconym
ˈkækəˌnɪm
eponym
ˈɛpəˌnɪm
ethnonym
ˈeθnəˌnɪm
exonym
ˈɛksəˌnɪm
hypernym
ˈhaɪpəˌnɪm
meronym
ˈmɛrəʊˌnɪm
mononym
ˈmɒnəʊˌnɪm
paranym
ˈpærəˌnɪm
pseudonym
ˈsjuːdəˌnɪm
textonym
ˈtɛkstəˌnɪm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HETERONYM

heterolytic
heterolytic fission
heteromerous
heteromorphic
heteromorphism
heteromorphous
heteromorphy
heteronomous
heteronomously
heteronomy
heteronymous
heteronymously
Heteroousian
heterophil
heterophile
heterophony
heterophyllous
heterophylly
heteroplasia
heteroplastic

WORDS THAT END LIKE HETERONYM

allonym
anonym
antonym
cohyponym
cryptonym
homonym
hyponym
metonym
paronym
polyonym
retronym
synonym
tautonym
toponym

Synonyms and antonyms of heteronym in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heteronym» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HETERONYM

Find out the translation of heteronym to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of heteronym from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heteronym» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

heteronym
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

heterónimo
570 millions of speakers

English

heteronym
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

heteronym
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

heteronym
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

разноименных
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

heterónimo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

heteronym
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hétéronome
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Heteronya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

heteronym
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

heteronym
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

heteronym
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Heteronym
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

heteronym
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

heteronym
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निनावी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

heteronym
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eteronimo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

heteronimu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

різнойменних
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

heteronym
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

heteronym
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

heteronym
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

heteronym
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

heteronym
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heteronym

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HETERONYM»

The term «heteronym» is used very little and occupies the 170.733 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of heteronym
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HETERONYM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «heteronym» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «heteronym» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about heteronym

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HETERONYM»

Discover the use of heteronym in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heteronym and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Discourse Processing
The two different sentences unambiguously determined the two different senses ( and hence the two different pronunciations) of the heteronym. Examples of two such sentences are The Sahara and Kalahari are large DESERTS and In the end  ...
A. Flammer, W. Kinzelbach, 2000
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Homographs & Heteronyms
18 Choosing the Correct Heteronym to Complete Sentences 19 Completing Sentences with present, content, and project 20 Completing Sentences with object, produce, and desert 21 Completing Sentences with record, row, and wind 22 ...
Remedia Publications
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Provocation and Negotiation.: Essays in Comparative Criticism.
coining the term “heteronym” to explain this phenomenon. His heteronyms Caiero, Reis, and Campos achieved literary recognition in their own right, entirely apart from their relation to Pessoa. Gelman's heteronym José Galván does not ...
Gesche Ipsen, Timothy Mathews, Dragana Obradovic, 2013
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Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality
34 Published for the first time in the original Portuguese and in English translation in Zenith, 'Fernando Pessoa's Gay Heteronym?' in Quinlan and Arenas, Lusosex, 47–53. 35 Zenith, 'Fernando Pessoa's Gay Heteronym,' 47, 50. 36 Zenith ...
Anna Klobucka, Mark Sabine, 2007
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Atlantic Poets: Fernando Pessoa's Turn in Anglo-American ...
Ricardo Reis, the Pessoan heteronym who writes refined Horatian odes, is however a Pessoan fiction before it becomes a Saramagoan fiction. According to an early manuscript, Ricardo Reis emerged in Pessoa's "mind" on January 29, 1914, ...
Maria Irene Ramalho Sousa Santos, 2003
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A Companion to Portuguese Literature
... 211 Reformation, 76–7, 93 Regeneração, 137 Régio, José (José Maria dos Reis Pereira), 20–1, 152–3, 160–2, 172,210 Reis, Jaime Batalha, 139 Reis, Ricardo (heteronym of Fernando Pessoa), 24, 147–8, 155, 313 Resende, Garcia de, 7, ...
Stephen Parkinson, T. F. Earle, Cláudia Pazos Alonso, 2013
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Fernando Pessoa's Modernity Without Frontiers: Influences, ...
Chronology of Fernando Pessoa's Life and Work RICHARD ZENITH I887 19 SEPTEMBER Heteronym Ricardo Reis is 'born' in Oporto at 4:05 pm. 13 JUNE 16 APRIL 15 OCTOBER 21 JANUARY 13 JULY 1888 Fernando AntOnio Nogueira ...
Mariana Gray de Castro, 2013
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Utopias of Otherness: Nationhood and Subjectivity in ...
Infausta, on the other hand, is the female heteronym of Aosse, or the female heteronym that Pessoa may have never created, echoing Virginia Woolf 's creation of Shakespeare's hypothetical female sister in A Room of One's Own. ( Recent ...
Fernando Arenas, 2003
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Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art
It comprehends five major heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Fernando Pessoa (the orthonym poet),10 as well as Antonio Mora, the philosopher in the group; around 1915 a Semi-heteronym, Bernardo Soares, ...
Jon Bartley Stewart, 2013
10
Unfettering Poetry: The Fancy in British Romanticism
(A fuller discussion of this poem appears in chapter 4.) “To the Poet Coleridge” was written, or signed, by “SAPPHO,” a heteronym (as the Portuguese Modernist poet Fernando Pessoa identifies the personages who, he says, write “his” poems ) ...
Jeffrey C. Robinson, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HETERONYM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heteronym is used in the context of the following news items.
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Chemical doublespeak
How you pronounce the heteronym 'lead compound' probably depends on whether you work in medicinal or inorganic chemistry, though I ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
2
Telling the maestro's story
Years later I discovered that Dasso is a surname in Peru and realised that my heteronym wasn't as original as I'd thought.” Whatever you want ... «The Bogota Post, Apr 15»
3
28 Portuguese Poets: A Bilingual Anthology
The book begins with the work of his heteronym Alberto Caeiro, whose poems are rooted in the countryside. There follows the work of Ricardo ... «RTE.ie, Feb 15»
4
Apple Inc. (AAPL) Breaks Market Cap Record As Stock Surges To …
It should not be called the "iCahn", but rather, by its homonym "iCon" (not to be confused with the heteronym "icon" where the stress is on the ... «International Business Times, Nov 14»
5
Reinventing Scotland, Reinventing Ourselves: After the Referendum
While a pseudonym is merely an assumed name, a heteronym is an entirely new personality, perhaps inspired or informed by the old, but ... «PopMatters, Sep 14»
6
Under Pressure
And the Atlas Group is not the only heteronym that Raad has used; I have also seen works allegedly by a Palestinian woman named Janah ... «The Nation., Sep 14»
7
Concordia's must-see art this fall
Published posthumously and under a heteronym — imaginary character personas created by the poet — it is composed of hundreds of ... «News@Concordia, Sep 14»
8
10 Seminal Writers Who Hid Their Identities, From Jonathan Swift to …
Each so-called “heteronym” possessed unique psychologies, biographies and writing styles, and Pessoa published prolifically under their ... «New York Times, Aug 14»
9
What to read on holiday in . . . Italy, Portugal and South Africa
... became synonymous with Pessosa – and used the 'semi-heteronym' of Bernardo Soares to pen his most famous work, The Book of Disquiet. «Irish Times, Jul 14»
10
Inside Opening
How can you not like a puzzle that opens with a heteronym like “Tears,” which I fell for and believed that the clue was hinting at tears that fall ... «New York Times, May 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Heteronym [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/heteronym>. Apr 2024 ».
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