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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary Date: 1843 1. one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling (as the words to, too, and two) 2. a character or group of characters pronounced the same as another character or group • homophonous adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a word having the same sound as another but of different meaning or origin (e.g. pair, pear). 2 a symbol denoting the same sound as another.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Homophone Hom"o*phone, n. [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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(homophones) In linguistics, homophones are words with different meanings which are pronounced in the same way but are spelled differently. For example, 'write' and 'right' are homophones. N-COUNT