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Meaning of "homonymy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOMONYMY

homonymy  [hɒˈmɒnɪmɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOMONYMY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Homonymy 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 HOMONYMY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Homonym

In linguistics, a homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but may have different meanings. Thus homonyms are simultaneously homographs and homophones. The state of being a homonym is called homonymy. Examples of homonyms are the pair stalk and stalk and the pair left and left. A distinction is sometimes made between "true" homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate and skate, and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a shared origin, such as mouth and mouth. In non-technical contexts, the term "homonym" may be used to refer to words that are either homographs or homophones. In this looser sense, the word row and row and row are considered homonyms, as are the words read and reed.

Definition of homonymy in the English dictionary

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

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOMONYMY


antonymy
ænˈtɒnɪmɪ
archenemy
ˈɑːtʃˈɛnɪmɪ
caconymy
kəˈkɒnɪmɪ
eponymy
ɪˈpɒnɪmɪ
hypernymy
ˈhaɪpəˌnɪmɪ
hyponymy
haɪˈpɒnɪmɪ
meronymy
mɛrˈɒnɪmɪ
metonymy
mɪˈtɒnɪmɪ
paronymy
pəˈrɒnɪmɪ
polyonymy
ˌpɒlɪˈɒnɪmɪ
synonymy
sɪˈnɒnɪmɪ
tautonymy
tɔːˈtɒnɪmɪ
teknonymy
tɛkˈnɒnɪmɪ
toponymy
təˈpɒnɪmɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOMONYMY

homomorphism
homomorphosis
homomorphous
homomorphy
homonuclear
homonym
homonymic
homonymity
homonymous
homonymously
Homoousian
Homoousianism
homophile
homophobe
homophobia
homophobic
homophone
homophonic
homophonically
homophonous

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOMONYMY

academy
anatomy
army
astronomy
creamy
domy
dummy
economy
Emmy
enemy
filmy
Grammy
mommy
my
stymy
tammy
taxonomy
thymy
tommy
yummy

Synonyms and antonyms of homonymy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «homonymy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOMONYMY

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

Translator English - Chinese

同名
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

homonimia
570 millions of speakers

English

homonymy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

homonymy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

homonymy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

омонимия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homonímia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

homonymy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

homonymie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Homonymy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Homonymie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

同音異義
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

homonymy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Homonymy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

homonymy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

homonymy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समलैंगिकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eşadlılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

omonimia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

homonimia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

омонімія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

omonimie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ομωνυμία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

homonimie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

homonymer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

homonymy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of homonymy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMONYMY»

The term «homonymy» is normally little used and occupies the 132.901 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMONYMY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOMONYMY»

Discover the use of homonymy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to homonymy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction
Many accounts of homonymy also fail to point out that partial homonymy does not necessarily involve identity of either the citation-forms or the underlying base- forms of the lexemes in question. For example, the noun 'rung' and the verb 'ring'  ...
John Lyons, 1995
2
English Lexicology: Lexical Structure, Word Semantics & ...
The first type of paradigmatic relation, homonymy, is not a meaning-relation or semantic relation between signs, lexical items, or lexical units. In the case of homonymy there is no relation whatsoever between the contents. On the other hand, ...
Leonhard Lipka, 2002
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Synchronic English Linguistics: An Introduction
There are two different kinds of word-based ambiguity: homonymy and polysemy. It is not always easy to distinguish between them. We speak of homonymy ( Homonymie) if different words happen to be identical in expression form, i.e. if they ...
Paul Georg Meyer, 2005
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Aristotle on Homonymy: Dialectic and Science
Giventhe open texture to the definitions of homonymy andsynonymy in Cat.1, itmay not seemsurprising to suggest that paronymycuts across homonymyand synonymy.So, while Aristotle'sexamples ofparonymy inCat. 1consistin pairs of ...
Julie K. Ward, 2007
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Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage: A Methodological ...
6.2.2 Polysemy, homonymy, and monosemy When we limit our attention to the study of meaning within grammar, polysemy has to be contrasted with homonymy and monosemy. Homonymy concerns those language forms which exhibit one ...
Gerard Steen, 2007
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The Identification of Word Classes in Connection with the ...
Homonymy and polysemy are often discussed as being the same sort of relationship between words. However, it is rather difficult to compare these phenomena. Reasons will be given in the following paragraph. According to Lipka the first ...
Hendrikje Schulze, 2007
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Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle
Where there is homonymy there is multiplicity: Aristotleaims to find the order within this multiplicity, and believes that doing so is crucial to scientific inquiry and philosophical progress.
Christopher Shields, Christopher John Shields, 2002
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Language: Its Structure and Use
Languages exhibit polysemy and homonymy in their lexicons to varying degrees. A language such as Hawaiian, which has a restricted set of possible words because of its phonological structure, has a good deal more homonymy than English ...
Edward Finegan, 2011
9
The Structure of Being in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
1, 1a1-2) 6 At first glance, the word 'being' has different definitions in its different applications, so it appears to be a homonymy. But after claiming that all beings are pros hen, Aristotle immediately adds that this is not homonymous (Meta. iv.2,  ...
Jiyuan Yu, 2003
10
Introducing English Semantics
3.6. Homonymy. and. polysemy. A lexeme is a conjunction of form and meaning. The form is fairly easy to determine: in writing it is a sequence of letters, in speech a sequence of phonemes. But meaning is more difficult to determine.
Charles W. Kreidler, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOMONYMY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term homonymy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bernard-Henri Levy: Putin, Ukraine and historical revisionism
What matters is that this analogy, this similarity of sound, this homonymy between “Rus” and “Russia” is being used to assert that Russia's ... «Kyiv Post, May 15»
2
What do we love about new words?
We explore the homonymy of prefixes and suffixes, and meaning of the word inflammable, which prompts discussion of the difference between ... «OUPblog, Nov 14»
3
Pope says hope is not mere optimism but a link to eternal life
The homonymy – the semantic differentiation – admits of very wide differences, yet under the same heading (category, taxonomy etc) it may ... «Catholic Herald Online, Oct 13»
4
Leading the Web to its Full Potential with the Semantic Web
... do not take into account phenomena such as homonymy, synonymy, expressions, etc. All these technical fields of research and development ... «MyScienceNews, Oct 13»
5
China's oppressive internet control begets censor-proof lexicon
In partial response, the Sinosphere has taken to the considerable potential of the Chinese language for homonymy, double entendres and ... «The National, Oct 13»
6
Wallace LaBerge
... 514 species, described 166 new species, relegated 408 species names to synonymy or homonymy and examined over 153,789 specimens. «Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette, Jul 13»
7
Sunlight & Moonlight: Quranic Signs vs. Science
However, Quran is a book of faith and guidance, which uses homonymy and metaphors to eloquently reveal its desired meanings. In linguistics, a homonym is a ... «Onislam.net, May 13»
8
GIs Closer To International Status As WIPO Committee …
The article contains three paragraphs: Content of Protection, Presumption in Case of Use by Third Parties, and Homonymy. The third paragraph ... «Intellectual Property Watch, May 13»
9
Rise of the Drow III: Usurper of Souls
Editing and formatting are very good, though not perfect: I encounter e.g. a homonymy-error and some other minor hick-ups. Layout adheres to ... «NERD TREK, Sep 12»
10
Madame Figaro the English teacher launches campaign against …
It said was "sorry" for the incident and promised to ensure both could "live this homonymy in good humour". The message was addressed to ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 12»

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