"polyphone" meaning in English

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "poly",
        "3": "phone"
      },
      "expansion": "poly- + phone",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "poly- + phone",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "polyphones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "polyphone (plural polyphones)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A letter, or combination of letters, that can be pronounced in two or more different ways"
      ],
      "id": "en-polyphone-en-noun-XBusmWP3",
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          "letter",
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        [
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          "pronounced"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "english": "the pronunciation may be the same or different",
          "word": "homograph"
        },
        {
          "english": "if the pronunciation is the same",
          "word": "homonym"
        },
        {
          "english": "if the pronunciation is different",
          "word": "heteronym"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "english": "homograph, refers to characters with more than one reading",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "duōyīnzì",
          "sense": "polyphone",
          "word": "多音字"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "taongo",
          "sense": "polyphone",
          "word": "多音語"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "polyphone"
}

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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "poly",
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      },
      "expansion": "poly- + phone",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "poly- + phone",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "polyphones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "polyphone (plural polyphones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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      "word": "homograph"
    },
    {
      "english": "if the pronunciation is the same",
      "word": "homonym"
    },
    {
      "english": "if the pronunciation is different",
      "word": "heteronym"
    }
  ],
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        "A letter, or combination of letters, that can be pronounced in two or more different ways"
      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "english": "homograph, refers to characters with more than one reading",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "duōyīnzì",
      "sense": "polyphone",
      "word": "多音字"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "taongo",
      "sense": "polyphone",
      "word": "多音語"
    }
  ],
  "word": "polyphone"
}