| ADJECTIVE | pert | homophonous | characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way |
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| Meaning | Characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way. | |
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| Example | "'horse' and 'hoarse' are homophonous words" | |
| Category | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
| Spanish | homófono | |
| Nouns | homophone | two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning / meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear) |
| homophony | the same pronunciation for words of different origins | |
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