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homonyme

French → English

noun//ɔ.mɔ.nim//

(linguistics) Homonym: a word that has the same spelling or sound as another word but a different meaning; namesake

Le mot 'vers' a pour homonyme le mot 'verre' malgré leur orthographe différente.

(English) The word 'vers' has the word 'verre' as a homonym despite their different spelling.

Il est parfois difficile de distinguer deux homonymes d'un même terme polysémique.

(English) It is sometimes difficult to distinguish two homonyms from a single polysemic term.

Entry ID: fr:en:homonyme · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary