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Webster 1913 Edition


Homonymy

Ho-mon′y-my

,
Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK]: cf. F.
homonymie
.]
1.
Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations.
Holland.
Homonymy
may be as well in place as in persons.
Fuller.
2.
Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity.

Webster 1828 Edition


Homonymy

HOMON'YMY

,
Noun.
[Gr. See Supra.] Ambiguity; equivocation.

Definition 2024


homonymy

homonymy

English

Noun

homonymy (plural homonymies)

  1. (semantics) The property of being a homonym.

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