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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ho*mon"y*mous\, a. [L. homonymus, Gr. ?; ? the same
+ ?, for ? name; akin to E. name.]
1. Having the same name or designation; standing in the same
   relation; -- opposed to heteronymous.
2. Having the same name or designation, but different meaning
   or relation; hence, equivocal; ambiguous.
 

 

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