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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A word whose sound is the same, but spelling and meaning differ from another’s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: homophone
Antonyms: homograph
Broader terms: homonym
History
From hetero- + -graph.
Across languages
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
