¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heteronyms
1. heteronym [n] - See also: heteronym
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heteronyms
Literary usage of Heteronyms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1898)
"... the latter, heteronyms. A familiar illustration is the Latin canalis, of which
canal ... while heteronyms are tube, passage, trough, and water-course. ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1885)
"Most English heteronyms, or vernacular translations of Latin names, are open to one
... heteronyms are apt to be ambiguous or misleading because the natural ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1885)
"heteronyms are apt to be ambiguous or misleading because the natural inference
is that they are literally correct. ..."
4. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Allan Menzies (1869)
"And heteronyms are those which relate to the same subject under ... And the other
species of heteronyms, as horse and black, are those which have a ..."
5. Suggestions to medical writers by George Milbry Gould (1900)
"heteronyms (difference of form and spelling for translating a term), as Wilder
has long contended, should, when possible, be supplanted by ..."
Other Resources:
