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homophone

 noun
     
Related topics: Linguistics, Grammar
hom‧o‧phone [countable] technical
SL a word that sounds the same as another but is different in spelling, meaning, or origin. For example, 'knew' and 'new' are homophones. [↪ homograph, homonym]
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