Multiple-Meaning Words
Multiple-meaning words are words that are spelled the same but have more than one meaning. The meaning depends on how they are used in a sentence.
A place is a location such as a school.
Place also means “to put,” as in, “Please place the paper on your desk.”
• Dictionaries and glossaries provide alphabetical lists of words and their meanings. When a dictionary shows more than one
meaning for a word, you know that word is a multiple-meaning word.
• When you read, you may come to a word whose meaning you know, but that meaning does not make sense in the sentence. Use context clues to find the meaning
Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and sometimes different pronunciations.
Steer as a verb means “to guide the course of”; as a noun it means “a young cow.”
Wind as a verb means “to move this way and that”; as a noun it is “the air in motion.”
• Use context clues, words and phrases near the homograph, to help you figure out the meaning of homographs.
A place is a location such as a school.
Place also means “to put,” as in, “Please place the paper on your desk.”
• Dictionaries and glossaries provide alphabetical lists of words and their meanings. When a dictionary shows more than one
meaning for a word, you know that word is a multiple-meaning word.
• When you read, you may come to a word whose meaning you know, but that meaning does not make sense in the sentence. Use context clues to find the meaning
Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and sometimes different pronunciations.
Steer as a verb means “to guide the course of”; as a noun it means “a young cow.”
Wind as a verb means “to move this way and that”; as a noun it is “the air in motion.”
• Use context clues, words and phrases near the homograph, to help you figure out the meaning of homographs.
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