What is Homonym ? De fine
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Homonyms are two wordsthat are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings. The word "homonym" comes from the prefix "homo-," which means the same, and the suffix "-nym," which means name. Therefore, a homonym is a word that has the same name as another word, meaning that the two words look and sound exactly alike.
A simple example of homonym is the word "pen" This can mean both "a holding area for animals" and "a writing instrument." Another example is "Book," which can mean "something to read" or "the act of making a reservation."In both cases, the sound and spelling are the same,and only the definition changes.
HOMONYM EXAMPLES:
Here are 30 more example of homonyms. Note that some homonyms have more than two meanings (for example, "tender" can also mean sensitive, easily chewed, or even refer to chicken strips),but to keep things simple we've only included two in our homonyms list:
- Address- to speak to/location
- Air- Oxygen/a lilting tune
- Arm- body part/division of a company
- Band- a musical group/ a ring
- Bark- a tree's out layer/the sound of dog makes
- Bat- an implement used to hit a ball/a nocturnal flying mammal
- Bright- very smart or intelligent/ filled with light
- Circular- taking a from of circle/ a store advertisement
- Current- up to date/flow of water
- Die- to cease living/ a cube marked with numbers one through six
- Express- Something done fast/ to show your thoughts by using words
- Fair- equitable/ beautiful
- jag- a sharp,jutted object/ a crying spree
- Kind- type/ caring
- Lie- to recline /to tell a falsehood
- Match- to pair like terms/ a stick for making a flame
- Mean- average/ not nice
- Pole- a person from Poland/ a piece of metal that holds a flag
- Pound- unit of weight/to beat
- Quarry- a site for mining stone/ to extract or obtain slowly
- Ream- a pile of paper/ to juice a citrus fruit
- Ring- a band on a finger/something circular in shape
- Right- Correct/ direction opposite of left
- Rock- a genre of music/a stone
- Rose- to have gotten up/ a flower
- Spring- a season/Coiled metal
- Stalk- a part of a plant/ to follow or harass someone
- Tender- gentle/ offer of money
- Tire- to grow fatigued/ a part of wheel
- Well- in good health/a source of water in the ground.