HETERONYMOUS Definition & Meaning

heteronymous

[ het-uh-ron-uh-muhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
having different names, as a pair of correlatives:
Father and son are heteronymous relatives.

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Other �y��vlog Forms

��e��·�ǲ�y·��ǳܲ�·�� adverb

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of heteronymous¹

First recorded in 1725–35, heteronymous is from the Late Greek word ��ٱ��ṓn�⳾�ǲ� having a different name. See heteronym, -ous

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This intelligent dog and assistant teacher often relieved and released the head-master in play hours; besides, most of the virtues could be less well practised by him than by Gustavus upon him, and he kept for that purpose the necessary heteronymous vices ready:--in sleep the school-colleague easily snapped about him at living legs, in his waking hours at those which had been plucked off.

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