Many Meanings: Homophones

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In this third of five Related Lessons, found in the right-hand sidebar, you will learn that many words have more than one meaning.

The words in this lesson sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

First, continue watching this Words with Multiple Meanings video (below) to learn more about multiple meaning words. You may remember watching the beginning of this video in the last lesson:

Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and that have different meanings are called homophones.

A good way to remember the word homophone is to think of a phone. When you talk on the phone, you can hear the other person. There are two different people talking.

Homophones are two words that sound the same (like two people talking on the phone) but are spelled differently.