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Date: 1800-1900
Origin: homo- + Greek -graphos 'written'

homograph

 noun
     
Related topics: Linguistics
hom‧o‧graph [countable] technical
SL a word that is spelled the same as another, but is different in meaning, origin, grammar, or pronunciation. For example, the noun 'record' is a homograph of the verb 'record' [↪ homonym, homophone]
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