Definition of: homograph

(hom′ə·graf, -gräf, hō′mə-) noun
A word identical with another in spelling, but differing from it in origin and meaning, and sometimes in pronunciation, as bass, a fish, and bass, a male voice: also called homonym. ♦ See note under HOMONYM. [<Gk. homographos having the same letters <homos same + graphein to write]
—hom′o·graph′ic adjective