paronomasia in English

noun
1
a play on words; a pun.
That humorous lyric mentioned earlier, ‘You can't have your Kate and Edith, too’ and the song ‘Overnight Male’ demonstrate paronomasia , use of words alike in sound but different in meaning.
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1. Agnomination Paronomasia; also, alliteration; Annomination

2. What does Annomination mean? (obsolete) Paronomasia; punning

3. Annomination ( plural Annominations ) ( obsolete) paronomasia; punning

4. Synonyms for Amphibology include pun, quip, equivoque, paronomasia, witticism, calembour, innuendo, wordplay, carriwitchet and clench

5. Annomination: The use in juxtaposition of words nearly alike in sound, but of different meanings; a paronomasia.

6. Plautus might seem more verbose, but where he lacks in physical comedy he makes up for it with words, alliteration and paronomasia (punning).

7. With Beltrami, it appeared that in the exact science of geometry the Amphibology of language also played an essential role, that here, too, artistic paronomasia was extremely fruitful.