assonance

See also: assonancé

English

Etymology

From French assonance, from Latin assonāre.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American, General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈæsənəns/
(General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɛsɘnɘns/

Noun

Examples (prosody)
Lifting its big glinting wing, it hit. How now, brown cow?

assonance (countable and uncountable, plural assonances)

(prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.

Related terms

assonant

Translations

repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds

Albanian: asonancë (sq)
Bulgarian: съзвучие (bg) n (sǎzvučie)
Catalan: assonància f
Czech: asonance f
Finnish: assonanssi
Ido: asonanco (io)

Maori: oropuare tārua
Russian: ассона́нс (ru) m (assonáns)
Spanish: asonancia (es) f
Swedish: assonans (sv) c
Tagalog: parihunig
Turkish: asonans (tr)

See also

Further reading

assonance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

Homophones: assonancent, assonances
Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

assonance f (plural assonances)

assonance

Verb

assonance

first-person singular present indicative of assonancer
third-person singular present indicative of assonancer
first-person singular present subjunctive of assonancer
third-person singular present subjunctive of assonancer
second-person singular imperative of assonancer

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