homonym

  1. Noun.  (semantics) (context, strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning.
  2. Noun.  (context, loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning, technically called a (term, homophone) (same sound) or a (term, homograph) (same spelling).
  3. Noun.  (taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.

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