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    legally named Shauna Lamas, and new bride Shawna, whose given name is a homonym and almost identical to that of Shauna, did not wish to have a virtually...
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    Ren Jialun (section Marriage)
    for development, because the word "good" in Japan is "yaoxi", which is homonym for "Yaoxi" and has the meaning of shining star. On 7 March 2017, after...
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    ascribed to him, but is now generally thought to have been written by an homonym. Juba II was a noted patron of the arts and sciences and sponsored several...
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    umbrellas were usually given as dowry, due to the "paper" (纸) and "child" (子) homonym in the language (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ́), symbolizing a blessing for the woman...
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  •  1580 – 1659), Anglican Archbishop of Cashel Hamilton was a friend of his homonym Sir Claud Hamilton of Shawfield with whom he is sometimes confused. He...
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  • Shinto wedding (category Marriage, unions and partnerships in Japan)
    joys and sorrows as a married couple, others suggest that san-san is a homonym for "birth after birth," suggesting fertility symbolism. Still others suggest...
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  • on-line. ENIAC was the inspiration for his story. The title is a near-homonym of "ipecac." The unnamed first-person narrator begins by discussing EPICAC's...
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  • of the series is a pun. "公主嫁到" means "The Princess Comes by Marriage", while its homonym "公主駕到" which roughly translates to "The Princess Cometh" is a...
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    Queen of Jhansi, of Vrindavan Lal Verma, 1946, which inspired the 1953 homonym film The Tiger and the Flame. Nightrunners of Bengal, a 1951 novel in English...
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    archivist-paleographer Arthur Bertrand de Broussillon points out that this is a homonym error : Charles d'Estouville did indeed marry a Marie de Craon, but she...
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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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    pretensions of John Master of Aviz to the Portuguese throne and after him, his homonym son, who participated on the conquest of Ceuta, being one the first warriors...
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    person, Max Vasmer in his dictionary considers the original Slavic word (homonym) and associates with the word bone (common Slavic *kostь), that is, it...
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  • rejected. Thereupon, Kato suggested another ring name Masato (魔裟斗), "the homonym term of Masato (雅人)". He accepted that name but he did not like it because...
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    (Chinese: 金枝玉葉); pinyin: Jīnzhīyùyè) (lit. golden branches and jade leaves) a homonym for the Chinese idiom "one of noble birth", a type of Ming dynasty hairpin...
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  • of the practice, its founder Mr. Li Hongzhi, and a wide assortment of homonyms are among the most censored terms on the Chinese internet. Any mention...
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  • but based on a different type; only one of the homonyms is considered a valid designation (see homonym (biology)). Compare to synonym. hydronym: a name...
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    Cajori, the ultimate etymology of the term "Bride's Chair" lies in a Greek homonym: "Some Arabic writers [...] call the Pythagorean theorem 'figure of the...
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  • Chinese pre-wedding customs (category Marriage in Chinese culture)
    such as peanuts and dates (in Chinese, the word for "date" is a near homonym of "early", while "peanut" is "birth"). This is normally presented on the...
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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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    Quash the Demons' Revolt Xuannü takes Yuan Gong (袁公; Mr. Yuan—Yuan being a homonym for "gibbon"), a white interconnected-arm gibbon not only exceptionally...
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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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    in the Western Neo-Syriac (Ṭūrōyo) Lexicon: With Special Reference to Homonyms, Related Words and Borrowings with Cultural Signification. Uppsala: Uppsala...
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  • word "O-Chew" is a homonym for "Ocho" (Spanish word for eight) but changed word to "Chew", which refers to Bubble gum that homonym to name of the show...
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    used in certain countries, e.g., Romania, to distinguish from the endonym/homonym for Romanians (sg. român, pl. români). In Norway, Romani is used exclusively...
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    places where the original Hebrew is marked either by a Hebrew idiom, a homonym, or a metaphor, and could not be readily understood otherwise. The translator...
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  • original, La Nausée), while other times he created titles that served as homonyms to those of original Sartre works, such as La Lettre et le Néon (The Letter...
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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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    from an attempt to disguise the word "cook". That "cook" and "coke" were homonyms at this time is shown by the fact that Coke's second wife, Elizabeth Hatton...
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    now, the fifth month when the rain falls." However, there are several homonyms in the line, such that it could be taken as a double entendre. An alternate...
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