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The relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning.

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  • French homonymy also gives you "rime riche" which is now illegal.
  • The choir/quire homonymy doesn't seem as active there as it is in Shakespeare, though.
  • And this I shall do that we be not deceived with the homonymy of the word, nor be at a loss in the intention of those places of
  • The traditional translations of equivocal, univocal and derivative are sometimes brought into English as homonymy, synonymy and paronymy.
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