Heteronyms | Definition | List | Examples | Sentences – Englishguru

 HETERONYMS  | Definition | Examples | List | Sentences – Englishguru

What are Heteronyms?

Heteronyms are also a type of homographs. They are words that are spelled the same but different in meaning and pronunciation all heteronyms are also homographs but all homographs are not heteronyms.

Heteronyms are also known as a heterophone.

a word that has a different meaning and pronunciation from other words but the same spelling.

many heteronyms are similar in meaning especially related nouns and verbs are spelled the same but pronounced differently while others are wholly unrelated. here is a list of heteronyms and heteronyms examples.

Let’s read a few examples of the Heteronyms:

1. Buffet: a meal at which guests serve themselves from dishes on display / to hit 

2. Sow: a pig / to plant seed

3. Wound: to injure/coiled up

4. Do: to accomplish / musical note

5. Repeat: repeat television show / to perform again

6. Pasty:  like blue / meat pie

7. Secreted:  placed out of sight / emitted

8. Multiply: to perform the mathematical operation of multiplication / in a multiple manners

9. Crooked: bent / band

10. Nun: woman in a religious order / the fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet

11. Drawer: compartment that is opened by pulling out / one who draws

12. Entrance:  entryway / to captivate

13. Invalid: someone who is sick or disabled / not valid

14. Conflict:  disagreement or fight / to be in opposition

15. Object: thing / to protest

16. Arithmetic:  a branch of mathematics/characteristics of arithmetic

17. Desert: arid region/something deserved

18. Number: a discrete value or quantity / more numb

19. Project: task  / to forecast

20. Subject: the theme/one ruled by another

21. Wind: to coil up/move air

22. Ellipses:  Plural of ellipse/plural of ellipses

23. Perfect: flawless / to make flawless

24. Sake:  propose / an alcoholic drink

25. Dove: a bird / jump off

26. Sewer: one who sews / channels for human waste

27. Overhead: operating expenses / and overhead projector

28. Minute: sixty seconds / tiny

29. Unionized: belonging to a union / not converted into ions

30. Laminate:  a layered construct / to construct by layering

31. Permit: a document giving permission / to allow

32. Intern:  a worker training / confine to a prescribed area

33. Lead: to guide / a metallic element

34. Record: a documented account /  to set down to preserve

35. Moderate: not excessive or extreme / to preside over

36. Incense: a substance that produces a pleasant Aroma when burned / to anger

37. Excuse: to let someone off / justify an explanation

38. Contract:  agreement / to shrink or to agree on a project

39. Primer: elementary book / undercoat of paint

40. Alternate:  another choice/switch back and forth

41. Does: performs / multiple one female deer

42. Resign: to quit / to sign again

43. Convict: prisoner / to find guilty

44. Separate: to set apart / not joined together

45. Periodic: occasional / an iodine compound

46. Are:  100 square meters/plural present tense of to be

47. Relay: a race in which members of a team take turns racing / to Lay again

48. Appropriate: to take positions of / suitable

49. Lather: foam or suds/one who installs lath (lattice)

50. Attribute:  to ascribe / characteristics

51. House: a building that serves as living quarters / to provide the living quarters

52. Evening: the time of day between afternoon and night / making even

53. Produce: vegetables / bring forth

54. Contest: competition / to dispute

55. Raven:  a blackbird /  hungry

56. Resume: to restart/document professional experience

57. Rebel: one who refuses allegiance or opposes /  to refuse allegiances or a oppose

58. Digest: a collection of published material / absorb nutrients

59. Present: gift / to introduce

60. Convert: one who’s believed was changed /  to change one’s belief

61. Deliberate: carefully considered / to consider

62. Construct: something  constructed / to assemble

63. Conduct:  behavior /  to direct or manage

64. Protest: an objection / to object

65. Combine: threshing machine /put together

66. Affect:  to change /feelings or emotion

67. Content: substantive  part / satisfied

68. Axes: plural of ax/plural of Axis

69. Bowed: bent / to inclined the head in greeting

70. Converse:  opposite / to talk

71. Pussy: having pus/kitten 

72. Refuse: garbage / to deny’

73. Close: to shut /nearby

74. Row: a fight /a series of objects

75. Consort: companion or partner /  to keep company

76. Recreation: entertaining or relaxing pastime /recreated

77. Content: satisfied / substantive part

78. Tear: to rip /  a drop of the clear liquid emitted by the eye

79. Suspect: or suspected of a crime /  to have a suspicion

Some Heteronymic sentences:

(a) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

(b) She could lead if she would get the lead out.

(c) Don’t desert me here in the desert!

(d) I did not object to the object.

(e) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

(f) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.