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ASSONANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does assonance mean?
• ASSONANCE (noun)
The noun ASSONANCE has 1 sense:
1. the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Familiarity information: ASSONANCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
assonance; vowel rhyme
Hypernyms ("assonance" is a kind of...):
rhyme; rime (correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds))
Derivation:
assonant (having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables)
assonant (having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables)
assonate (correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance)
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