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heteronymous

[ het-uh-ron-uh-muhs ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
  2. having different names, as a pair of correlatives:

    Father and son are heteronymous relatives.



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Other Word Forms

  • e·Dzy·dzܲ· adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of heteronymous1

First recorded in 1725–35, heteronymous is from the Late Greek word ٱṓn⳾Dz having a different name. See heteronym, -ous
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Example Sentences

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This intelligent dog and assistant teacher often relieved and released the head-master in play hours; besides, most of the virtues could be less well practised by him than by Gustavus upon him, and he kept for that purpose the necessary heteronymous vices ready:--in sleep the school-colleague easily snapped about him at living legs, in his waking hours at those which had been plucked off.

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