Example sentences for: homonym

How can you use “homonym” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • English already has several well known -onym words (from the Greek onyma meaning name), such as synonym (same meaning), antonym (opposite meaning), and homonym (same sound).

  • homophone--(Exclusive of a homonym) A well-liked doctor has both patience and patients.

  • PRONOUNCE SPELL MEAN heteronym different same different homograph homonym same same different homophone same different different

  • I have noticed that nearly every one-syllable first name is a homonym for an actual word.

  • Finally, we need a word for all these words that identify a category of words — the existing words such as synonym, antonym, and homonym, and the suggested neonyms—bicronym, fractonym, etymonym, and the others.


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