Such words include polish (to make shiny) and Polish (from Poland). Thus right (correct) and right (opposed to left) would be polysemous (see below) and not homonyms.Ĭapitonyms are words that share the same spelling but have different meanings when capitalised (and may or may not have different pronunciations). Some sources state that homonym meanings must be unrelated in origin (rather than just different). Examples of homonyms are : 1)stalk (which as a noun can mean part of a plant, and as a verb to follow/harass a person), 2) bear (animal), and bear (carry), leaf (part of plant or the page of a book). Some books only require that homonyms share the same spelling or pronunciation (in addition to having different meanings), but these are the definitions most other sources give for homographs and homophones respectively. In linguistics, a homonym is one or a group of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings, usually as a result of the two words having different origins.
Similar in spelling and different in usage or Similar in spelling and different in pronunciation or Similar in pronunciation but different in usage and spelling or Similar in spelling but different in meaning or Slightly different in spelling but might have similar usage or Words whose usage is commonly mistaken by non native speaker.
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