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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: p?n, IPA^(key): /p?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, p?nian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *pun?n? (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.

Verb

pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)

1. (transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
2. (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

Noun

pun (plural puns)

1. A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

   Synonyms: paronomasia, play on words

   Hypernym: joke

   Hyponym: antanaclasis

   • Austen was likely referring to flogging or spanking, then common naval punishments, known as le vice anglais.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean ? (bun), from Chinese ? (“fen”)

Noun

pun (plural puns or pun)

1. (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun: a Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

Anagrams

• N-up, NPU, UPN, nup

Chuukese

Conjunction

pun

1. because

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• puan
• pen (Ragusan dialect)

Etymology

From Latin p?nis, p?nem.

Noun

pun m

1. (Vegliot) bread

Malay

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /pon/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /p?n/
• Rhymes: -on

Adverb

pun (Jawi spelling ????)

1. also
2. even

Synonyms

• juga

Related terms

• -pun

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pun]

Verb

pun

1. first-person singular present indicative of pune
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of pune
3. third-person plural present indicative of pune

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?ln?, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *píl?nas, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûn/

Adjective

p?n (definite p?n?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. full, filled
2. fleshy, plump
3. full, complete
4. occupied (of room)

Declension

Spanish

Noun

pun m (uncountable)

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound of discharging a firearm

   Synonym: pum

2. (onomatopoeia, vulgar) the sound of flatulence

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