Usually means: Words same in form, different meanings.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word homonymy:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. homonymy: Merriam-Webster
  2. homonymy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. homonymy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. homonymy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. homonymy: Vocabulary.com
  6. homonymy: Wordnik
  7. homonymy: Wiktionary
  8. homonymy: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Homonymy, homonymy: Dictionary.com
  10. Homonymy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Homonymy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. homonymy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Homonymy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. homonymy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. homonymy: FreeDictionary.org
  16. homonymy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. homonymy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Homonymy: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. homonymy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (homonymy)

noun:  (semantics) The property of being a homonym.

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