Homographs

Homographs

Definition: Homographs, a group of words that have the same spelling and pronunciation but different meanings.

Origin: Greek from the words //homos// and //grapho// meaning “same” “write”.

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Examples from Text


 * "A mad old man used to LIVE by himself in a hut halfway up the mountain and sing to Jesus all day... So this hunter dug a pit and put a duck in it for bait, all aLIVE and covered the pit with straw smeared with wolf dung" an Excerpt from The Company of Wolves" by Angela Carter

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