homonym

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homonym (plural homonyms)

(semantics, strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning.
(loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning, technically called a homophone (same sound) or a homograph (same spelling).
(taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.

Homonyms (in the looser sense) are divided into the two overlapping subcategories homographs and homophones. Examples:
- die and dye (homophones but not homographs)
- the parasitic flatworm called a fluke and fluke, part of the tail of a whale (both homophones and homographs and therefore true homonyms in the strict sense)
- the metal lead and the present tense of the verb lead (homographs but not homophones)

word with the same sound or spelling but different meaning

Armenian: համանուն (hamanun)
Catalan: homònim m, n
Chinese:

Mandarin: trad. 同音異義詞, simpl. 同音异义词 (pinyin: tóngyīn yìyì), trad. 同音詞, simpl. 同音词 (pinyin: tóngyīncí)
Czech: homonymum (cs) n
Dutch: homoniem (nl) n
Esperanto: homonimo
Finnish: homonymia
French: homonyme (fr) m, n
German: Homonym (de) n
Greek: ομώνυμο (el) n (omónymo)
Ido: homonimo (io)

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Declension of homonym

Nym	Sound	Spelling	Category
homonym	same	same
heteronym	different	same	(cat)
homograph	not specified	same
homophone	same	different	(cat)
heterophone	different	different
synonym	different	different