ALLITERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alliterate mean? 

• ALLITERATE (verb)
  The verb ALLITERATE has 1 sense:

1. use alliteration as a form of poetry

  Familiarity information: ALLITERATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLITERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they alliterate    ... he / she / it alliterates   
Past simple: alliterated   
Past participle: alliterated   
-ing form: alliterating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Use alliteration as a form of poetry

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "alliterate" is one way to...):

rhyme; rime (compose rhymes)

Domain category:

poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

alliteration (use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse)

alliterative (having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable)

alliterator (a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration)