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Homophony

Noun: Homophony refers to a musical texture where there is a dominant melodic line accompanied by simple chords or harmonies.

Example sentence: The choir performed the beautiful hymn with perfect homophony, producing a harmonious sound.

Noun: In linguistics, homophony is the phenomenon where two or more words have the same pronunciation but different meanings.

Example sentence: The word "right" has multiple meanings, and its homophony with "write" often leads to confusion in spelling.

Noun: In phonetics, homophony refers to the situation where two different phonemes are pronounced identically by a speaker.

Example sentence: The English language has various examples of homophony, like the words "pear" and "pair" sounding the same but having different meanings.

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