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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
hom·o·phone       [hom-uh-fohn, hoh-muh-] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
2.a written element that represents the same spoken unit as another, as ks, a homophone of x in English.
[Origin: 1615–25; back formation from homophonous]

—Synonyms See homonym.
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hom·o·phone       (hŏm'ə-fōn', hō'mə-)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   One of two or more words, such as night and knight, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling.

ho·moph'o·nous (hō-mŏf'ə-nəs) adj.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
homophone 
1843, from Gk. homos "same" (see same) + phone "sound" (see fame).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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homophone

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) 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Homophone

Hom"o*phone\, n. [Cf. F. homophone. See Homophonous.]

1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. --Gliddon.

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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