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homophony

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9 lettersPronunciation /həˈmɒfəni/Part of speech nounSorted hhmnooopyStarts with HEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. part music with one dominant voice (in a homophonic style)

Word origin

Internationalism, from French homophonie, from Ancient Greek ὁμοφωνία (homophōnía, “unison”), from ὁμόφωνος (homóphōnos, “of the same sound or tone”). By surface analysis, homo- + -phony.

Used in a sentence

  • There is, for example, the homophony of "merry" and "Mary," which typifies the South Midland accent common in the hill country of east Tennessee and upper Georgia.
  • This is the third puzzle with a theme that plays on the homophony between the word “sea” and the letter C to come across my desk in recent months, but I’m tickled every time.

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