Are homonyms single words?
What are some acronyms in the English language? A grizzly bear
- can bear a lot of weight and is the best example!
- I stake out the house while perched on a stake. A stake should not be on the ground as it may get crushed and hit by someone.
- I took a bow after shooting my bow. After shooting my bow.
- Pick any shovel you want.
- I came to see the Bishop’s see.
Is word two? Does it possibly depend on their etymology? Are the same words and the same origin or origin for opposite meanings or a language? How are words defined? In what sense a word is a combination of spelling, meaning, origin or a combination of the three? Definition of the free dictionary word
as A sound or combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning.
The meaning of homonyms can be read as describing homonyms as both single (a word is a representation of sound in writing) and multiple (a word communicates a
meaning) words.
A word is a sound – or A letter group – that has a specific meaning. “bear” and “bear” are certainly distinct words though. Even words that mean the same thing (like “automobile” and “motor car”) are different words (obviously).
One of the most striking examples of homophone are the pair “entrance” and “entrance”.
Blogs: Today’s Dictionaries are dealing with this issue. They don’t care about spelling, they do everything wrong. This situation is growing. We get to a point where Dictionaries have to commingling with that or a topic that something similar happens. What do the words run mean? On the other hand, bow has three separate entries.
What do print Dictionary examples use? In contrast, the online dictionary by Collins uses a numeral in a blue square for each entry to denote the same thing, as can be seen at their listing for bow ).
I’m a priest. I came
to see the Bishop.
See and see are not the same word, as are the words of many language and article.
In his comments, John Lawler said that something does depend on who is counting and what the count represents. In the phrase
“He had a cold”.
had and had are two separate words (it is a five-word sentence, after all), but those two hads happen to map to the same dictionary entry, whereas, in the earlier sentence, see and see map to two different dictionary entries. Is that right?
What is the best definition of a word?
PERSONAL NUMBER: Some definitions have been removed from this image as the interest of conserving space.
