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homophone

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  1. 1. n. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A word having the same word/sound">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. Source: opted
  3. 3. 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) Source: wordnet
  4. 4. 1. A word/letter">letter or word/character">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. Source: webster
  5. 5. 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) Source: ecdict

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