Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a homonymous manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation.
  • adverb Equivocally; ambiguously.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a homonymous manner, so as to have the same name or relation.
  • adverb Equivocally; ambiguously.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

homonymous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Given how this series started with a homonymously titled song, its haunting melody will serve as an empirical example against which to test how meaning is time-related.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dimitri Hamlin 2012

  • Given how this series started with a homonymously titled song, its haunting melody will serve as an empirical example against which to test how meaning is time-related.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dimitri Hamlin 2012

  • Short of sexting and posting Facebook status updates illiterately quoting homonymously mangled Lady Gaga lyrics, few teen activities seem as ubiquitous as descending upon the local Apple store in one lolzoring, bubble-gum-smacking biomass and stupiding it up for everyone.

    Cult of Mac 2010

  • Short of sexting and posting Facebook status updates illiterately quoting homonymously mangled Lady Gaga lyrics, few teen activities seem as ubiquitous as descending upon the local Apple store in one lolzoring, bubble-gum-smacking biomass and stupiding it up for everyone.

    Cult of Mac 2010

  • No, here ethics should be read philologically and homonymously, resonating like the strings of a cello with connotations of hexis, economy, and the household.

    Larval Subjects . 2010

  • In the Crawler's dating days, homonymously named sweethearts were a dream-it so greatly reduces the prospects of any, shall we say, misguided moniker mayhem.

    The Valley Advocate: News 2009

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