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Homophone

Homophone Meaning & Definition
Homophone Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Homophone?

[n] two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)

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Homophone In Webster's Dictionary

\Hom"o*phone\, n. [Cf. F. homophone. See {Homophonous}.] 1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. --Gliddon. 2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.

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