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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Homophonous (0.00915 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Homophonous.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: homophonous
homophonous
adj : the phenomenon of words of different origins coming to
pronounced the same way;
“homophonous words”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Homophonous
Homophonic
\Ho`mo*phon"ic\, Homophonous
\Ho*moph"o*nous\, a.
[Gr. ?; ? the same + ? sound, tone: cf. F. homophone.]
1. (Mus.)
(a) Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch;
unisonous; monodic.
(b) Now used for plain harmony, note against note, as
opposed to polyphonic harmony, in which the several
parts move independently, each with its own melody.
[1913 Webster]
2. Expressing the same sound by a different combination of
letters; as, bay and bey.
[1913 Webster]
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