Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the same pitch; of like sound.
- In philology: Agreeing in sound but differing in sense. See
homophone , 2. - Expressing the same sound or letter with another: as, a homophonous hieroglyphic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a homophone or homophony.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the same pronunciation.
- adjective music
homophonic ; sounding the same
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way
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Examples
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Cisco's homophonous handset came first (in 2006) and allowed Wi-Fi Internet calls.
Cisco's Gadget Guru 2010
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If मरुत marút may be so etymologized, such that these storm gods 'crush' and 'pummel' with thunder3 rather than 'shine' through lightning, then surely so may Sanskrit márīci- 'mote or speck in the air' or 'particle of light' be likewise attributed to the homophonous root referring to crushing, grinding and wearing things away.
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Cisco's homophonous handset came first (in 2006) and allowed Wi-Fi Internet calls.
Cisco's Gadget Guru 2010
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We need only compare the resulting hi-class presentive *CóC-e-i with a would-be preterite **CóC-e to understand that the change certainly helped to better phonetically distinguish between two almost homophonous forms.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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In contrast, a root that shows a devoiced stop but which confuses the allophone with the homophonous phoneme should instead properly pair with another unvoiced stop.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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Once the sibilant disappeared, it would be all too easy for even a native speaker to get confused between a historical phonetic k an allophone of voiced *gʰ following a sibilant and the homophonous phoneme *k.
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We need only compare the resulting hi-class presentive *CóC-e-i with a would-be preterite **CóC-e to understand that the change certainly helped to better phonetically distinguish between two almost homophonous forms.
Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite 2009
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Once the sibilant disappeared, it would be all too easy for even a native speaker to get confused between a historical phonetic k an allophone of voiced *gʰ following a sibilant and the homophonous phoneme *k.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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I mean, the man's name is homophonous with "gnome"!
An Open Letter to David Horowitz Richard Nokes 2006
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I've also ascertained so far that the intransitive participle -θ was once *-ta whereas the homophonous agentive suffix -θ as in the names Aranθ and Vanθ was once *-ti.
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