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assonance
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as·so·nance  (s-nns)
n.
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 assonre, to respond to : ad-, ad- + sonre, to sound; see swen- in Indo-European roots.]

asso·nant adj. & n.
asso·nantal (-nntl) adj.

assonance [ˈæsənəns]
n
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
[from French, from Latin assonāre to sound, from sonāre to sound]
assonant  adj & n
assonantal  [ˌæsəˈnæntəl] adj

assonance
likeness or approximate similarity in sound.
See also: Sound
resemblance of sound, particularly vowel sounds, occurring in words of close proximity.
See also: Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.assonance - the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
rhyme, rime - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
Translations
assonance [ˈæsənəns] Nasonancia f
assonance
nAssonanz f


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