'Homophone' definitions:
Definition of 'homophone'
(from WordNet)
noun
Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Definition of 'Homophone'
From: GCIDE
- Homophone \Hom"o*phone\, n. [Cf. F. homophone. See Homophonous.]
- 1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. --Gliddon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright. Homophonic