homophone

11 plus vocabulary word for grammar school entrance exams

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Learn the meaning of homophone with synonyms, antonyms and an example sentence. Part of our 11 plus vocabulary list used for selective school and grammar school preparation.

homophone

(noun)

Meaning

words that sound alike but differ in meaning

Example

"In English, 'sea' and 'see' are examples of homophones."

Synonyms

sound-alikehomonym

More about this word

Word origin
From Greek 'homo' meaning 'same' and 'phone' meaning 'voice or sound'.