KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA NO-4 ONGC VADODARA

English Vocabulary Enrichment

Homonym, Homophone, Homographs

Homonym: In English, homonym is a word that sounds the same as another word

but differs in meaning.

Homonyms can refer to both homophones and homographs.

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs

in meaning and is spelled differently.

Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning.

Homonyms examples:

Words that sound the same but have different meaning and are spelled differently

(homophones)

Weak — Week

Sun — Son

See — Sea

Plane — Plain

Meet — Meat

Words that sound the same but have different meaning and are spelled the same

(homographs)

Address – Address

Band – Band

Bat – Bat

Match – Match

Mean – Mean

Right – Right

Ring – Ring

Examples: with pictures and sentences

Students go through all the Homophones & Homographs Picture Charts and try

to understand the difference between their meanings by reading the usage in

sentences. Learn them by heart and make them a part of your active vocabulary .I

Hope that you will not get confused with their meanings in future.

Source: 7esl.com