homophonic

Examples

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• The title itself is a play on words: Miss Muerto is homophonic with mis muertos (my dead ones).

  Academic text (1998)

• The alliterative consonance is enhanced by the alliterative and homophonic sounds of the first syllable of "buttress" and the word "but."

  Academic text (1997)

• These contain a morpheme replaced by a homophonic morpheme.

  Academic text (2013)

• Also, the crossing out of "Madam" leaves us with "Malcomb," which is, we might note, homophonic for "Malcolm," a man's name.

  Academic text (2011)

• The ironic reverberations in the thoughts of service and loyalty, of love and honor and duty, ring with homophonic sounds and complex cross-echoings among the words: PREFORMATTED TABLE.

  Academic text (1997)

• In fact, I can't recall ever hearing it pronounced, and I know a couple of Americans who spent years in Australia (unless the 'g' is silent and thus homophonic with "whining").

  Blog text (11)

• He took the name because of its homophonic resemblance to the French phrase "J'en ai marre" (I'm fed up); and indeed, Emar had the right to be fed up: with the literati of Chile, who ignored his writing throughout his life and beyond.

  Academic text (2007)

• The words 'night' and 'knight' are homophonic because they sound the same but have different meanings.

• In poetry, using homophonic words can create clever puns and add depth to the verses.

Synonyms

H

homophonous

vshomophonic

9.9

Words that sound the same but have different meanings or spellings

allows similar sounding words, not only those with identical pronunciation

H

homonymous

vshomophonic

9.3

Words with the same spelling or sound but different meanings

focuses on sound similarity rather than cases of identical spelling

How Different

to dissimilate

• Specialized

9.9

homophonic

8.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology