HOMONYMS

Simple Definition of homonym

• a word that is spelled and pronounced like another word but is different in meaning

   

  Examples of homonym in a sentence

  The noun “bear” and the verb “bear” are homonyms.

  
  

  In linguistics, a homonym is one of a group of words that share the same pronunciation but have different meanings, whether spelled the same or not. A more restrictive definition sees homonyms as words that are simultaneously homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of their pronunciation) and homophones (words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of their spelling).

  The relationship between a set of homonyms is called homonymy.

   Examples of homonyms are the pair stalk (part of a plant) and stalk (follow/harass a person) and the pair left (past tense of leave) and left (opposite of right).
   
  A distinction is sometimes made between "true" homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate (glide on ice) and skate (the fish), and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a shared origin, such as mouth (of a river) and mouth (of an animal).

 

List of True Homonyms

• arm
• back
• bank
• bark
• base
• bat
• beam
• board
• bolt
• book
• bow
• box
• can
• cast
• cave
• change
• check
• chip
• clear
• close
• club
• command
• cool
• current
• crane
• dear
• deck
• down
• duck
• dust
• employ
• even
• evening
• exact
• fall
• fat

• file
• fine
• fire
• flat
• fold
• foot
• gill
• glass
• grand
• grave
• groom
• gross
• hail
• heaven
• hood
• horn
• iron
• jam
• journey
• just
• key
• kind
• lead
• left
• letter
• lie
• light
• line
• long
• lower
• match
• may
• mole
• mouse
• nail
• order

• park
• pile
• pitcher
• pole
• pound
• quarry
• reign
• remote
• right
• rock
• rocket
• rose
• route
• row
• seal
• serve
• set
• show
• shower
• sick
• sign
• sink
• spring
• square
• stall
• tank
• tear
• tie
• tire
• trip
• trunk
• wave
• watch
• well
• wind
• yard

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym

 https://www.google.com/search?q=homonyms&rls=com.

 http://www.homeschoolwithlove.com/2014/09/05/list-true-homonyms/