alliteration
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alliteration
- /əˌlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən/ US
- [əˌlɪɾəˈɹeɪʃən] US
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
Where it comes from
From New Latin allīterātiō, from allīterātus, from allīterō, from Latin ad (“to, towards, near”) and lītera (“a letter”).
noun 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. 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.
Translations
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noun the repetition of letters or sounds
| Español | aliteración |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 두운 duun |
| 日本語 | 頭韻 touin |
| 中文 | 頭韻 /头韵 tóuyùn, 雙聲 /双声 shuāngshēng |
| हिन्दी | अनुप्रास anuprās |
| Português | aliteração |
| Français | allitération |
| Deutsch | Alliteration |
| Italiano | allitterazione |
| Ελληνικά | παρήχηση paríchisi |
| Русский | аллитера́ция alliterácija |
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