Homonym

A homonym is a word that has more than one meaning. For example, right means moral, the opposite of left, and a personal freedom.

Definition: one of a group of words that share the same spelling and/or pronunciation but have different meanings.homonym, Random House unabridged dictionary at dictionary.com

The point is that homonyms are either homophones (they sound the same) or homographs (they look the same) or both.

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