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What does homophonous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (phonetics) Having the same pronunciation.
  2. (music) Homophonic; sounding the same.
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Because there are so many, they are excluded from the list of homophonous pairs below.
Chinese is by reputation much more homophonous than English.
On the other hand, if that irregular cluster were to be repaired by vowel insertion, the result would be homophonous with transitive poroljon.
The relative pronoun could be homophonous with a complementizer, and this complementizer could cause mutation while the relative pronoun did not.
The Lyons family — the fact that their name is homophonous with carnivorous beasts is no accident — is the playwright Nicky Silver's latest pitch-black creation, and his knack for the bleakly funny is unerring.

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