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    Definition (section Homonyms)
    A homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings. Thus homonyms are...
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    coincidence that Axen’s French husband is called Paul-Arnaud Pirette, almost a homonym of the company’s name. Polarn O. Pyret makes clothing and outdoor wear...
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  • of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, S.S.J. (Josephites - which has a homonym) Society of the Catholic Apostolate, S.A.C. (Pallottines) Society of the...
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    Cuba, capital of the homonym province, with a population of about 7,000. Mainly known for a Basilica in honour of Our Lady of Charity, the patron saint of...
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    adjective maius, maior "larger, greater". Originally, she may have been a homonym independent of the Greek Maia, whose myths she absorbed through the Hellenization...
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  • for the concept of tikkun olam, claiming that the original prayer used a homonym "l'takhen" (spelled differently, לתכן‎) meaning "to establish" (rather...
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  • the Bank of place names in Geographical Names Board of Canada has 60 homonyms related to "Lake of the cross" 29 names "lac à la Croix" (Lake of the cross)...
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    "Fulani | people". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-10-27. The homonym Fulani is also used by the Manding peoples, being the diminutive form of...
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    nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but...
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    de Van Gogh (Video) Released: 2002 Label: Epic Format: DVD, VHS First homonym DVD of the band. Contains 12 music videos, 3 live performances and special...
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    be titled 11:11, revealing the album's concept being connected to the homonym numerological belief. Moreover, he shared that the album will contain 11...
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    different variations:《卐》and 《卍》. As the Chinese character wan (卐 or 卍) is homonym for the Chinese word of "ten thousand" (万) and "infinity", as such the...
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  • Jiangsu province, China, "the famous flower of Yangtze River", Chinese homonym of the Yangtze River JPL · 5384 5385 Kamenka 1975 TS3 Kamenka (Kamianka)...
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    Panna Maria, art by José Antonio Muñoz, Casterman, 1999 (adapted by the homonym novel by Charyn himself) White Sonya, art by Jacques de Loustal, Casterman...
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    (of the temple of Ptah at Memphis), under Ramesses II; but he had many homonyms. So, the omission-of-deity explanation is to be dismissed as wrong ......
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    ornamental plants, with numerous named cultivars such as 'Wayne Roderick', 'Charity', 'Foersters Liebling', and 'Dunkelste aller' ("The darkest of all" with...
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    —origin 1940s: from Greek akron 'end, tip' + onoma 'name,' on the pattern of homonym. "acronym". Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition. Houghton...
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    Chinese character of their family name from "岳" (lit. mountain peak) into a homonym "樂" (lit. music). "ディーン・フジオカ、『おっさんずラブ』で武川が"おむつパートナー"として狙うバチェラー役に". Mynavi...
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    and after his first three losses he declared to Edward Lasker, "Your homonym plays so stupidly that I cannot even look at the chessboard when he thinks...
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    loanwords are used and necessary to distinguish between otherwise ambiguous homonyms. Vietnam used to write in chữ Hán (Chinese characters) in Classical Chinese...
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    four-character idiom "左鄰右里" which means "neighbor", by using the artists' names homonyms 麟 and 李. By the end of 2003, Hacken won the Most Popular Male Singer in...
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  • zoological sense or illegitimate in the botanical sense due to senior homonyms already having the same name. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U...
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    Register the name of the small street was Vicolo Tosi, but in 1941, to avoid homonyms with Carlo Tosi and Cardinal Eugenio Tosi streets, the odonym was changed...
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    Hebrew genitive noun מַרְפֵּא, marpeʾ, which may be one meaning of two homonyms: 1 "healing", from the root רָפָא, raphaʾ, "to heal"; 2 "calmness, gentleness”...
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  • England: "the mimicry of prayers, liturgies, manuals and grammars, the mad homonyms, especially biting ones such as 'Loud' for 'Lord', which both [Joyce and...
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    Antoine, worn by a native), followed by the suffix -acum of Gallic origin. A Homonym with Antogny, Antoigné, and Antoigny all of which toponyms date back to...
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  • Alcimus nigrescens Ricardo, 1922 [valid] Asilus montanus Ricardo, 1922 [homonym, valid as Orophotus montanus (Ricardo, 1922)] Asilus orientalis Ricardo...
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  • zoological sense or illegitimate in the botanical sense due to senior homonyms already having the same name. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U...
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    also badges and pins with the Le Grelle coat of arms. Fascinated by his homonym Edmond Le Grelle (1805-1876), he dedicated a site based on Google Earth...
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    architect John Bakewell. The name "Arequipa" - based on the name of the homonym city of Arequipa in Peru - is from a Peruvian aboriginal language which...
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