alliteration
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See also: Alliteration and allitération
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin allīterātiō, from allīterātus, from allīterō, from Latin ad (“to, towards, near”) and lītera (“a letter”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
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alliteration (countable and uncountable, plural alliterations)
- The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables.
- Hypernyms: consonance, consonant rhyme, pararhyme
- Coordinate term: assonance
- 2018 March 20, “Fish fury flares over Brussels Brexit deal”, in ITV[1]:
- So fish fury all round, as there has been in the past. And as an aside, that alliteration was, sadly, not mine that of a former political correspondent of the Daily Record, John Deans, and applied to the 'cod wars' with Iceland.
- The recurrence of the same letters or sounds in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]the repetition of letters or sounds
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References
[edit]- “alliteration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Further reading
[edit]alliteration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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