| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| paronomasia |
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| SYLLABICATION: | par·o·no·ma·sia |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p r  -n -m  zh, -zh - |
| NOUN: | 1. Word play; punning. 2. A pun. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin, from Greek paronomasi, from paronomazein, to call by a different name : para-, beside; see para–1 + onomazein, to name; see onomastic. | | OTHER FORMS: | paro·no·mastic (-mst k) , paro·no·masial (-mzhl, -zh-l) —ADJECTIVE
paro·no·masti·cal·ly —ADVERB
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