Oronym
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Oronym is a noun meaning The toponym of a mountain.
Meaning
The toponym of a mountain.
More Meanings
- A phrase or sentence that sounds the same as another phrase or sentence.
Example Sentences
An oronym that comes from mishearing the lyrics of a song is most often called a mondegreen.
Vowel harmony may serve the purpose of parsing the morphosyntactic words in phrases (i.e., oronym avoidance).
[…]sometimes what you hear isn't what you're supposed to hear. Oronyms are sentences that can be read in two ways with the same sound.
The comedian Jeff Foxworthy often uses oronyms in his Appalachian comedy routine, as when he uses a sentence with moustache: "I moustache [must ask] you a question."
Word Forms
- oronyms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include paronym, synonym, polynym, homonym, comeronym, poecilonym.
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