The Complete List of Homonyms

This is The Complete List of Homonyms which contains all the Homonyms.



Gait: A person’s manner of walking

Gate: A hinged barrier used to close an opening in a wall, fence or hedge


Gild: To cover or coat thinly with guild

Gilled: Having gills-the paired respiratory organ of fish and some amphibians through which oxygen is extracted from water

Guild: An association of people in pursuit of a common guild or mutual aid


Gin: An alcoholic beverage

Jinn: (In Arabian and Islamic mythology) An intelligent spirit that can appear in human and animal form(also spelt djinn)


Grill:

1. A device on a cooker that radiates heat downwards for cooking food

2. A gridiron used for cooking food on an open fire

3. A dish of food, particularly meat cooked using a grill

4. (Informal) Subject someone to intense questioning or interrogation


Hail:

1. pellets of frozen rain falling in showers

2. A large number of things that are hurled forcefully through the air

3. Call out someone to attract attention

4. Acclaim enthusiastically as something

5. Have one’s origins or home in (to hail from)

Hale: (Usually referring to an old person) Strong and healthy (hale and healthy)


Hall: A large room

Haul:

1. To pull or drag with effort or force

2. A quantity of something obtained, especially illegally

3. A number of fish caught at one time(a good haul)

4. A distance to be traveled(it is a long haul)


Hangar: A garage for aircraft

Hanger: A shaped piece of wood, plastic or metal with a hook at the top, meant for hanging clothes


Heal: To cure a disease

Heel: The hind part of the foot


Heard:

1. Sound picked by the ear

2. To be told or informed about

Herd: Large group of animals, especially hoofed mammals that live together or are kept together


Hoard:

1. A store of money or valued objects

2. To amass and hide or store away(wealth or money)

Horde:

1. (Mainly derogatory) A large group of people

2. An army or tribe of nomadic warriors


Hoes: More than one long handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for weeding

Hose:

1. A flexible tube conveying water used primarily for watering plants and firefighting

2. To water or spray with a hose


Holy: Something considered true, sacred and pure with religious significance Wholly: Completely, fully and entirely


Humerus: The bone of the upper arm or forelimb, between the shoulder and the elbow- also called the funny bone

Humorous: causing amusement, funny, having or showing a sense of humor


Idle:

1. Avoiding work, lazy

2. (Of money) Held in cash or in an account paying no interest

3. Having no purpose or basis (idle boast/ threat)

Idol:

1. An image or representation of a god used as an object of worship

2. Something or someone that is adulated(A sports idol)

Idyll:

1. A period or situation that is blissful

2. A picturesque scene or incident described in short in verse or prose


In:

1. Something that is enclosed or surrounded

2. Referring to a period of time during which an incident took place

3. Expressing the condition of inclusion or involvement

Inn: A hotel or public house, traditionally also providing food and lodging


Inc: The short form or abbreviation for incorporated

Ink: A colored fluid that is used for writing, drawing or printing


Incite: To encourage or stir up (behavior that is violent and unlawful)

Insight:

1. The ability or capacity to gain an accurate, deep and intuitive understanding of something

2. An understanding of the above kind


Jean:

1. A heavy twilled cotton cloth. Especially denim

2. A pair of jeans

Gene: (Biology) A hereditary unit that is transferred from parent to offspring and which determines the characteristics of the offspring, particularly a distinct sequence of DNA forming part of chromosomes


Jack: An English or Christian name

Jack:

1. A device used for lifting heavy objects, especially one for raising the axle of a motor vehicle

2. Playing card bearing an image of soldier, page or knave and normally ranking below the queen


Knead:

1. To work dough or clay with the hands

2. Massage as if kneading

Need: Something one must have, something required


Knight:

1. (Middle Ages)A man elevated to honorable military rank after service as a page or squire

2. A man devoted to the cause or service of a woman(poetic or literary)

3. A chess piece, shaped like a horse’s head, that moves by jumping to the opposite corner of a rectangle two squares by three

Night:

1. The time from sunset to sunrise

2. The darkness of the night


Knot:

1. Fastening that is made by looping a piece of string, rope, etc.. on itself and tightening it

2. A hard lump of bodily tissue

3. A small group of people

4. A unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, used for ships, aircraft or wind

Naught:

1. the digit zero

2. Nothing

Not: A word denoting negation


Lacks: A thing that does not have or is devoid of

Lax:

1. relaxed (of muscles)

2. Not sufficient strict, severe(in discipline) or careful


Lessen: To reduce or bring down in number

Lesson: A thing that learnt, a period of learning or teaching


Liar: A person who tells lies or falsehoods

Lyre: A stringed instrument, used especially in ancient Greece


Lichen:

1. A fungus that grows on rocks, walls and trees

2. A skin disease in which small, round, hard lesions occur close together

Liken: To compare (to something)


Lightening: To reduce the weight of something

Lightning: A brief, natural, high-voltage electrical discharge between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud accompanied by a bright flash and often with thunder also


Load:

1. heavy or bulky thing that is being carried

2. A weight or source of pressure

3. The amount of work that is to be done by a person or by a machine

Lode: A vein of metal ore in the earth


Loan:

1. A thing or an amount that is borrowed, particularly a sum that is supposed to be paid back with interest

2. The act of lending

Lone: By itself, the only one or being along with out any company of other person


Main: Chief in size or importance

Mane: The growth of long hair on the neck of a horse, lion or other animals, a person’s long hair


Maize: A cereal plant that yields corn

Maze:

1. A net work of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle through which a person has to find his way

2. A confusing mass of information


Mall:

1. A large enclosed shopping area where traffic is not permitted

2. A sheltered walk or promenade

Maul:

1. (of an animal) To wound by scratching or tearing

2. Handle or treat savagely and roughly

Moll:

1. A gangster’s female companion

2. A prostitute or commercial sex worker


Manner:

1. A specific way in which something is done or happens

2. A style in literature of in art

3. A person’s outward bearing or way of behaving with others

Manor:

1. A large country house with lands

2. (Historical) A unit of land, usually a feudal land ship, consisting of a lord’s demesne and lands rented to tenants

3. (Informal) One’s home territory or area of operation


Medal: A medal disc with an inscription or design awarded to acknowledge distinctive achievement or made to commemorate an event

Meddle: To interfere in something that does not concern one (usually meddle in/with)


Might:

1. Expressing the possibility of something

2. Great power or strength

Mite:

1. A tiny arachnid with four pairs of legs

2. A small child or an animal

3. A very small amount


Miner: A person who works in mines

Minor: With little importance, seriousness or significance

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