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(semantics) A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.
Usage notes
A homophone is a type of homonym in the loose sense of that term (a word which sounds or is spelled the same as another). (The strict sense of homonym is a word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.) A homograph is a word with the same spelling as another but a completely unrelated meaning. Homographs are not necessarily homophones. See homonym § Usage notes for examples.
Borrowed from Ancient Greekὁμόφωνος(homóphōnos, “speaking the same language, making the same sound, in agreement, in unison”), from ὁμός(homós, “same”) + -φωνος(-phōnos, “with respect to language or sound”), a suffix derived from φωνή(phōnḗ, “sound, language”), in the linguistic sense coined by French philologist Jean-François Champollion 1822 (for the adjective) and 1824 (for the noun).
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