homonym

Noun

 * 1)  A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
 * 2)  A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both), technically called a  (same sound, different spelling) or a  (same spelling, different sound), or if both are the same, a homonym.
 * 3)  A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.

Usage notes

 * Homonyms (in the broader sense) are divided into the two overlapping subcategories homographs and homophones. Examples:
 * and (homophones but not homographs)
 * the  called the, the fish called the , and a , part of the tail of a whale (both homophones and homographs and therefore true homonyms in the strict sense)
 * the metal and the present tense of the verb  (homographs but not homophones)

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tatar: omonim
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: homonimo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ომონიმი
 * German:, Homonymum
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient Greek: ὁμώνυμος
 * Hebrew: הוֹמוֹנִים
 * Hungarian:, azonos alakú szó
 * Ido:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: កល្បពាក្យ
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: аваздаш
 * Latin: homonymum
 * Malayalam:
 * Manx: co-ennym
 * Maori: kupu huarite
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene: enakozvočnica, homonim
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Venetian: omònemo

Adjective

 * 1) homonymic

Noun

 * 1) homonym