heteronymous

American  

[het-uh-ron-uh-muhs] / ˌhɛt əˈrɒn ə məs /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.

2. having different names, as a pair of correlatives.

   Father and son are heteronymous relatives.

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Other Word Forms

• heteronymously adverb

Etymology

Origin of heteronymous

First recorded in 1725–35, heteronymous is from the Late Greek word heterṓnymos having a different name. See heteronym, -ous

Example Sentences

This intelligent dog and assistant teacher often relieved and released the head-master in play hours; besides, most of the virtues could be less well practised by him than by Gustavus upon him, and he kept for that purpose the necessary heteronymous vices ready:--in sleep the school-colleague easily snapped about him at living legs, in his waking hours at those which had been plucked off.

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