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homograph
Updated on 04/19/2018
n.
one of two or more words that are written in exactly the same way but have unrelated meanings. For example,
row
meaning
linear arrangement
and
row
meaning
argument
are homographs. Compare
homonym
;
homophone
.
—homographic
adj.
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