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English
nyms

Noun
en-noun

1. A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning.

Usage notes
Homonyms are divided into the two overlapping subcategories homographs and homophones. Examples:
die and dye (homophones but not homographs)
the fish fluke and fluke, part of the tail of a whale (homophones and homographs)
the metal lead and the bare infinitive of the verb lead (homographs but not homophones)

Translations
trans-top|word with the same sound or spelling but different meaning
Catalan: homònim m|n
Croatian: t-|hr|homonim|m
Czech: t+|cs|homonymum|n
Dutch: t+|nl|homoniem|n
French: t+|fr|homonyme|m|n
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German: t-|de|Homonym|n
Japanese: JAchar|���義� (d�on igigo)
Korean: �� ��� (���義�)(dong-um ei-uei-eo)
Spanish: homónimo m|n
Swedish: t+|sv|homonym|c
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See also
heteronym
homograph
homophone
homonymic
homonymous

Category:English abstract nouns

Swedish

Noun
homonym

1. homonym

Conjugation
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| bgcolor#FFFFF0 colspan5 align=center | Common
|-
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! rowspan=2 |
| colspan2 width105 | Singular
| colspan=2 | Plural
|- bgcolor#FFFFF0 aligncenter
| width=105 | Indefinite
| width=105 | Definite
| width=105 | Indefinite
| width=105 | Definite
|- align=center
| width105 bgcolor#FFFFF0 | Nominative
| homonym
| homonymer
| homonymen
| homonymerna
|- align=center
| width105 bgcolor#FFFFF0 | Genitive
| homonyms
| homonymers
| homonymens
| homonymernas
|}

cs:homonym
fr:homonym
io:homonym
id:homonym
nl:homonym
no:homonym
fi:homonym
sv:homonym
vi:homonym
tr:homonym
zh:homonym

• 2007-12-20 15:04 - Tbot - added t for cs, nl, fr, de, sv

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