Two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings. Classified under: Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents. Hypernyms (homonym is a kind of...): word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of homonym): homograph (two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair)) homophone (two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear))