as·so·nance

(ăs′ə-nəns)

1. Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words, as in: "that dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea" (William Butler Yeats).

2. The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants, as in the phrase tilting at windmills.

3. Rough similarity; approximate agreement.

[French, from Latin assonāre, to respond to : ad-, ad- + sonāre, to sound; see swen- in Indo-European roots.]

as′so·nant adj. & n.

as′so·nan′tal (-năn′tl) adj.

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assonance

(ˈæsənəns)

1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery

2. partial correspondence; rough similarity

[C18: from French, from Latin assonāre to sound, from sonāre to sound]

ˈassonant adj, n

assonantal adj

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as•so•nance

(ˈæs ə nəns)

n.

1. similarity of sounds in words or syllables.

2. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.

[1720–30; < French, =asson(ant) (< Latin assonant-, s. of assonāns, present participle of assonāre to sound; see as-, sound1)]

as′so•nant, adj., n.

as`so•nan′tal (-ˈnæn tl) as`so•nan′tic, adj.

assonance

- The condition of the words of a phrase or verse having the same sound or termination without rhyming.

assonance

likeness or approximate similarity in sound.

assonance

Use of words which repeat similar vowel sounds.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

assonance - the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words

vowel rhyme

rhyme, rime - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

Translations

assonanza

ассонанс

assonance

[ˈæsənəns] N → asonancia f

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assonance

n → Assonanz f

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French verse, on the other hand, had rime (or assonance) and carefully preserved identity in the total number of syllables in corresponding lines, but it was uncertain as regarded the number of clearly stressed ones.

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