“Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.” – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
HOMOPHONE
homophone
(noun) two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
homophone (plural homophones)
A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.
Usage notes
A homophone is a type of homonym in the loose sense of that term (a word which sounds or is spelled the same as another). (The strict sense of homonym is a word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.) A homograph is a word with the same spelling as another but a completely unrelated meaning. Homographs are not necessarily homophones.
Source: Wiktionary
Hom"o*phone, n. Etym: [Cf. F. homophone. See Homophonous.]
1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. Gliddon.
2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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