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HETERONYM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation
Example:
the word 'bow' is an example of a heteronym
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("heteronym" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
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