What are some types of homonyms?
The more common definition of homonym refers to words which have different meanings but which are pronounced the same though spelled differently. In linguistics, however, this is narrowed to a group of words which have two (or more) meanings. Each homonymic entry in this is system is a single word. An excellent example of this definition would be the word “bear,” which can mean “to carry” but which can also be defined as the living or cartoon example of someone who will steal all the picnic baskets out of Jellystone Park before nightfall. I am going to go out on one of the limbs borne by a tree in that very park and assume you are more interested in the common, rather than linguistic, definition and would like a list of homonyms. For this, you can do no better than Alan Cooper’s Homonyms (not Alice Cooper’s, I am afraid, yet a nice site nonetheless): http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html.
