assonance

From French assonance, from Latin assonāre; by surface analysis, a- +‎ son- +‎ -ance.

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

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɛsɘnɘns/

assonance (countable and uncountable, plural assonances)

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

   Synonym: vowel rhyme

   Hypernyms: rhyme; concord

   Coordinate terms: consonance, consonant rhyme, pararhyme; alliteration

   • 1938, T.H. White, chapter 12, in The Sword in the Stone, Collins:

     "You should try to speak without assonances" said Merlyn. "For instance, 'The beer is never clear round here, dear' is unfortunate, even as an assonance.'"

• assonant

• dissonance

• assonance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Spanish asonancia.

• IPA^(key): /a.sɔ.nɑ̃s/

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• Homophones: assonancent, assonances
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

assonance f (plural assonances)

1. assonance

   Near-synonym: consonance

   Antonym: dissonance

assonance

1. inflection of assonancer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “assonance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.