• (n.) Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations. • (n.) Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/homonymy/
(from the article `hieroglyphic writing`) ...pictures (ideograms) and, second, the picture signs are given the phonetic value of the words for these represented objects (phonograms). At the ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/h/66
<zoology> Any name that is a junior homonym of an available name must be rejected and replaced. ... (09 Jan 1998) ... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973
Ho·mon'y·my noun [ Greek ...: confer French homonymie .] 1. Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations. Holland. « Homonymy may be as well in place as in persons.» Fuller. 2. Sameness of name or designation of things or persons w... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/57
Aspect of language in which, through historical accident, two or more words may sound and look alike (homonymy proper, as in a farmer's bull and a papal bull). Other types of homonymy are homophony, (as in air and heir; gilt and guilt Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21221