Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being, relating to, or of the nature of a heteronym.
- adjective Being different names or terms but having correspondence or interrelationship, as mother and daughter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, of the nature of, or having a heteronym.
- Of a different name: specifically, in optics, said of the double images of an object as seen under certain conditions. See
homonymous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to a
heteronym - adjective Being
different words , but having acommon relationship e.g.brother andsister aresiblings of each other
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Late Greek heterōnumos, from Greek, with a different denominator : Greek hetero-, hetero- + Greek onoma, name; see nŏ̄-men- in Indo-European roots.]
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Examples
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For, if two inconsistent principles of valuation be employed, then the table will be vicious, because heteronymous.
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822
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For, if two inconsistent principles of valuation be employed, then the table will be vicious, because heteronymous.
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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At that time I had "discovered" a grand total of ten heteronymous pairs of words.
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