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• plural of homophone.

homophones

Cultural  

1. Two words that sound alike. This category includes words that are spelled the same, such as trunk (of an elephant) and trunk (a storage chest), as well as words spelled differently, such as deer and dear.

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Students in the small, remote community of Estancia, N.M., were enthusiastically engaged in a vocabulary lesson, enunciating words with a “bossy r,” as well as homophones and homonyms, and spelling them on white boards.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2022

Here are some common homophones and their meanings:

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2019

Are you good at phrases that incorporate complicated Mandarin homophones?

From The Guardian ● May 15, 2019

True homophones are separate words which have, or have acquired, an illogical fortuitous identity.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges