Homonymy

Homonyms are either homographs (identical spelling/regardless of pronunciation) or homophones (identical pronunciation/ regardless of spelling), or both. All three meanings of row (propel with oars, linear arrangement, argument) are homographs, but only the first two are also homophones. The words see (vision) and sea (body of water) are homophones, but not homographs. Examples of homonyms that are both homographs and homophones (identical spelling and pronunciation/different meanings) are stalk (part of a plant/follow and harass a person) and left (past tense of leave/opposite of right). Also see Polysemy