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alliteration

English

Etymology

From New Latin all?ter?ti?, from all?ter?tus, from all?ter?, from Latin ad (to, towards, near) and l?tera (a letter).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /??l?t???e???n/, [??l?????e???n]
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

alliteration (countable and uncountable, plural alliterations)

  1. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
  2. The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

Related terms

  • alliterational
  • alliterative
  • alliteratively
  • alliterativeness

Translations

See also

  • assonance

Further reading

  • alliteration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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sibilants

English

Noun

sibilants

  1. plural of sibilant

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