Hō-mŏn'y-my, n.

n. [Gr. ὁμωνυμία, Fr. homonymie, Sp. homonimia. See supra.] Sameness between words which differ in signification; ambiguity.

There being in this age two Patricks, ... and that the homonymy may be as well in place as in name, three Bangors. Fuller.