Question: what is the meaning of homonyms and example

title: Homonym
text: In linguistics , homonyms , broadly defined , are words which sound alike or are spelled alike , but have different meanings . 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 ) -- that is to say they have identical pronunciation and spelling , whilst maintaining different meanings . 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 ) . 

Answer: answer: In linguistics, homonyms, broadly defined, are words which sound alike or are spelled alike, but have different meanings. 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).