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What does homonym mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word homonym? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (semantics) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning.
  2. (loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning, technically called a homophone (same sound) or a homograph (same spelling).
  3. (taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.
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At Gemini you can also see the menhir of the Visitazione situated near the homonym church and it is still in excellent conditions.
The homonym icon is in the metropolitan church. Every year on November 21 st is organized a big festival.
This is clearly an error as Miller and Gurley's younger name could not have priority over Meek and Worthen's older name, unless it was a replacement name for a homonym.
This publication culminates with an illustration which cleverly highlights every homonym cited in the text.
Trogini based on Trogus is a junior homonym of Trogidae MacLeay, 1819, based on the coleopterous genus Trox Fabricius.
Dress and do the hair and make-up of the beautiful Miley Cyrus, who's also becoming a movie star: she'll be the protagonist of Wings, a movie based on the homonym novel by Aprilynne Pike!

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