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What does it mean when two words sound the same but have different meanings?
Homonyms
Homophones are words that sound the same but are different in meaning or spelling. Homographs are spelled the same, but differ in meaning or pronunciation. Homonyms can be either or even both. Or all the words which are spelled the same but don’t sound the same at all.
What is it called when two words sound the same spelled differently?
Homophones
HOMONYMS are words that sound alike but have different meanings. Homophones are a type of homonym that also sound alike and have different meanings, but have different spellings. HOMOGRAPHS are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.
What is the opposite of Imperial?
imperial. Antonyms: ignoble, servile, slavish, mean, paltry, beggarly. Synonyms: majestic, royal, magnificent, supreme, superb.
What language sounds like?
Obviously Czech and Slovak, and English and Scots, are very similar. Portuguese and Spanish, and English, German and Dutch, are all also quite close. So is Danish, Swedish and Norweigan.
What word in the English language has the most meanings?
set
According to Guinness World Records, the word that has the most meanings in the English language is the verb “set.” “Set” has 430 senses listed in the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which was published in 1989.
What words are the same in multiple languages but have different meanings?
Here are 25 words that are the same in multiple languages, but have different meanings: 1. “‘Gift’. English: a present. German: poison. Norwegian: married. same spelling, different pronunciation.” – picnic_on_the_river. 2. “‘Slut’ is Swedish for ‘the end’” – HamBus.
What are words that have the same meaning but different spellings?
Homonym – words that have the same spelling but a different meaning Heterograph – words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings Multinym – words that sound the same but have more than two different meanings and spellings. On the subject of multinyms, it may surprise you to learn that in English, there
Why are some words similar to each other?
The words may be similar due to them coming from the same language family or due to loan words. In some cases they are ”false friends” meaning the words stand for something else from what you know.
What is a homophone and what does it mean?
What is a homophone? The word “homophone” is used to describe a word that sounds the same as another word, but that has a different meaning. It comes from the Greek words “homo”, meaning “same”, and “phone”, meaning “voice”. The two (or more) words may be spelled differently, but just to make life difficult, they can also be spelled the same.