homophonous
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way
'horse' and 'hoarse' are homophonous words
Related & opposite
- homophony derivation
- linguistics domain topic
- homophone pertains to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | homophony |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | linguistics |
| 1 | pertains to | Related & opposite | homophone |