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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Example Sentences

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

In characteristic Midwest American English words such as cot and caught are pronounced as homophones.

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

In the pursuit of his studies he also found out the existence of homophones, that is, characters having the same sound; and that phonetics were mixed up in every inscription with ideographs and representations.

From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by King, James