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    Definition (section Homonyms)
    A homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings. Thus homonyms are...
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  • difficult for Europeans". Like most other languages, Tobian has examples of homonyms but they are not as abundant. Meanings can vary solely on vowel length...
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    adjective maius, maior "larger, greater". Originally, she may have been a homonym independent of the Greek Maia, whose myths she absorbed through the Hellenization...
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    two most frequent combinations orthographically required to distinguish homonyms in Bulgarian and Macedonian: Ѐ, Ѝ; a few Old and New Church Slavonic combinations:...
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  • asserts love before the speaker reciprocates. "Dear heart" might be a homonymic reference to the deer in the first stanza(Buckley). In most such poetry...
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  • Jiangsu province, China, "the famous flower of Yangtze River", Chinese homonym of the Yangtze River JPL · 5384 5385 Kamenka 1975 TS3 Kamenka (Kamianka)...
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    history, a past that she has left physically behind. He notes that Sun is a homonym for Son, and that Wheatley intended a double reference to Christ. Wheatley...
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  • which was initially called (County of the) Ardennes named itself after its homonym capital city founded in 963. From Celtic Lucilem "small", German lützel...
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    Glossary of botanical terms Glossary of plant morphology nom. rej. rejected homonym not Parl. 1845 Linnaeus' original species of Amaryllis were: A. lutea,...
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    2023. Retrieved 19 August 2013. Tulloch, A. (2017). Understanding English Homonyms: Their Origins and Usage. Hong Kong University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-988-8390-64-9...
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