homonym

Etymology

homo- + -onym

noun

  1. (semantics, strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
  2. (loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both), technically called a homophone (same sound, different spelling) or a homograph (same spelling, different sound), or if both are the same, a homonym.
  3. (taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.

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