Concept information
Preferred term
1524Homonymy
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Scope note
- Ηomonyms, broadly defined, are words which sound alike or are spelled alike, but have different meanings. The relationship between a set of homonyms is called homonymy. Example of homonyms are the pair bank (building, institution) and bank (of river). A distinction is sometimes made between true homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate (glide on ice) and skate (the fish), and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a shared origin, such as mouth (of a river) and mouth (of an animal).
Source
- Crystal 2008
- Saeed 2017
Contributor
- Katsiadakis Helen (AA)
Creator
- Karasimos Athanasios (AA)
Notation
- 1524
In other languages
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Greek
URI
https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/1524
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