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Meaning of "homonymic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOMONYMIC

homonymic  [ˌhɒməˈnɪmɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOMONYMIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Homonymic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HOMONYMIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Homonym (disambiguation)

Homonym may refer to: ▪ Homonym, a name or word with more than one distinct meaning ▪ Homonym, a taxon identical in spelling to a name belonging to a different taxon...

Definition of homonymic in the English dictionary

The definition of homonymic in the dictionary is pronounced or spelt in the same way but differing in meaning.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOMONYMIC


acronymic
ˌækrəˈnɪmɪk
antonymic
ˌæntəˈnɪmɪk
bulimic
buːˈlɪmɪk
cyclothymic
ˌsaɪkləʊˈθaɪmɪk
dysthymic
dɪsˈθaɪmɪk
enzymic
ɛnˈzaɪmɪk
eponymic
ˌɛpəˈnɪmɪk
gimmick
ˈɡɪmɪk
Hieronymic
ˌhaɪərəˈnɪmɪk
matronymic
ˌmætrəˈnɪmɪk
metonymic
ˌmetəˈnɪmɪk
metronymic
ˌmɛtrəˈnɪmɪk
mimic
ˈmɪmɪk
paronymic
ˌpærəˈnɪmɪk
patronymic
ˌpætrəˈnɪmɪk
polyonymic
ˌpɒlɪəˈnɪmɪk
synonymic
ˌsɪnəˈnɪmɪk
thymic
ˈθaɪmɪk
toponymic
ˌtɒpəˈnɪmɪk
zymic
ˈzaɪmɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOMONYMIC

homolytic
homolytic fission
homomorph
homomorphic
homomorphism
homomorphosis
homomorphous
homomorphy
homonuclear
homonym
homonymity
homonymous
homonymously
homonymy
Homoousian
Homoousianism
homophile
homophobe
homophobia
homophobic

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOMONYMIC

academic
atomic
autonomic
ceramic
comic
cosmic
dynamic
economic
epidemic
etymic
genomic
Islamic
isoenzymic
isozymic
mic
orgasmic
panoramic
schizothymic
systemic
tautonymic

Synonyms and antonyms of homonymic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «homonymic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOMONYMIC

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The translations of homonymic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «homonymic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

同名
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

homonímica
570 millions of speakers

English

homonymic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

homonymic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

homonymic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

омонимических
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homônimo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

homonymic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

homonymique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Homonymic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

homonymic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

homonymic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

homonymic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Homonymic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

homonymic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

homonymic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Homonymic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eşsesli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

omonimo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

homonimicznych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

омонімічних
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

omonimice
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ομώνυμου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

homonymic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

homonyma
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

homonymic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of homonymic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMONYMIC»

The term «homonymic» is used very little and occupies the 173.239 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMONYMIC» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOMONYMIC»

Discover the use of homonymic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to homonymic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings: ...
Paronomasia in this modern sense is used mainly for aesthetic effect, sometimes to combine otherwise unrelated statements into loose contexts. 2. Forms of Wordplay. At the most basic level, there are two kinds of wordplays, homonymic puns ...
Tremper Longman III, Peter Enns, 2008
2
Grammaticalization
The majority of examples of avoidance of homonymic clash are lexical, and even in the lexical domain they are infrequent. In PDE the noun sanction is used in two meanings: 'permission' and 'penalty', and the verb rent is used in the senses ...
Paul J. Hopper, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, 2003
3
Medieval Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Egypt: The Secular Poetry ...
6.6 Homonymic Poetry Like other Eastern poets, Moses Darʿī imitated the pattern of Arabic paranomasia (tajnīs) when writing homonymic poetry. Moses ibn Ezra was the first Hebrew poet to turn homonymy into a full-blown poetic genre in his ...
Joachim J.M.S. Yeshaya, 2010
4
Lies My Preachers Told Me: The Bible's Doctrine on Marriage ...
Too make it easier to understand Paul's homonymic way of writing as pertaining to his homonymic usage of the two words—“The Law”; let's go to the Book of Genesis and look at God's homonymic usage of the word—“Day.” Paul calling ...
Ephraim Israel
5
Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James ...
root is partially defective as a semantic indicator in comparison with roots that are not homonymic. The point is: the recognition ofsomething as 'one root' depends not on formal characteristics (i.e. identity of consonants etc.) but on the semantic ...
James Barr, John Barton, 2014
6
Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology
Petrified texts pass the homonymic test; unpetrified texts do not. It is definitive of the homonymic test that one treats the text, rather than the meaning of the text, as multiple. Homonymic entries in dictionaries are exemplary of the procedure.
Richard A. Shweder, 1991
7
Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament: ...
Syriac is another language which like Hebrew can present, when surveyed in the dictionary form, remarkable groups of 'homonymic' roots. A good instance is that of 'rb, for which Brock- elmann registers ten separate entries as against the six ...
James Barr, 1987
8
Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics
So too can the phenomenon of 'homonymic conflict' and its dia- chronic resolution (which has been abundantly illustrated by Gillicron and his followers). ' Homonymic conflict' may arise when the operation of the principle of 'least effort' may ...
John Lyons, 1968
9
Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining: ...
'goods for- writing') As many abbreviations are homonymic with standard words, their proper recognition may be difficult. Tab. 1 gives a list of such homonymic abbreviations. In the first column we give their shapes, attaching their interpretation ...
Mieczyslaw A. Klopotek, Slawomir T. Wierzchon, Krzysztof Trojanowski, 2004
10
Selected Writings: Early Slavic Paths and Crossroads
The poets of the Oldest Epic School obviously reacted against contemporary unbound verse with its consistently grammatical rhymes, and they highlighted their reaction against semantic parallelism of rhyming words by using homonymic  ...
Roman Jakobson, 1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOMONYMIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term homonymic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
'Game of Thrones' and 'Frozen' Are Changing How We Name Our …
The homonymic name Aria has seen a similar rise in popularity the last few years, jumping from rank 353 in 2010 to 157 in 2011 and 91 in ... «Zimbio, Jul 15»
2
Meet Spain's Great Estates
... which have different meanings depending on usage. To wit, here's a homonymic example from Spain's wine world that proves that words, like terroir, matter. «Wine Enthusiast Magazine, Jul 15»
3
STRIPING IT ALL BARE
The reference to Leda and Swan assumes a fresh perspective here especially in Ayoola's use of a Cock in a homophonic and homonymic way. «THISDAY Live, Jun 15»
4
Rats Build Their Labyrinth: Oulipo in the 21st Century
... from the potentiality of his Oeuvres, which “describes works conceived of but not realized by its author,” to the homonymic play of Amérique, ... «Hyperallergic, May 15»
5
Genocide 100: Musicians plan concerts under 'I Remember and …
... Centennial of the Genocide under the slogan “I remember and I demand” with Eduard Topchyan's leadership; on April 11 – in the homonymic ... «ArmeniaNow.com, Apr 15»
6
Get Down To Brass Tax: Six Ways To Sail Through Self-Assessment
Tax doesn't have to be taxing. So goes the Revenue's homonymic advertising slogan. As January 31 fast approaches –the last chance to get ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Feb 15»
7
These Are the 10 Funniest Drag-Queen Names, According to Our …
A lot of "homos": homophonic puns, homographic puns, and homonymic ones too. Some will make your eyes roll, but the best ones make you ... «Huffington Post, Jan 15»
8
JAPANESE HOME COOKING: Plump simmered black soy beans set …
... black soy beans, that signify hopes for a rewarding life through work and good health due to the homonymic nature of the word “mame.”. «Asahi Shimbun, Jan 15»
9
Top 25 Performances of 2014
Still Alice is hard to watch but it is also a positive fight, and both are thanks to one person: Moore, whose appropriately homonymic last name ... «Live in Limbo, Dec 14»
10
Oil and Water
... Parisian avant-garde during the 1860s and 1870s—initially had little use for his near-homonymic doppelgänger Claude Monet (1840-1926). «Wall Street Journal, Nov 14»

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