FromNew Latinallīterātiō, fromallīterātus, fromallīterō, fromLatinad(“to, towards, near”) andlītera(“a letter”).
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- Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. (Milton)
- Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. (Alfred Tennyson)
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- In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne, I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. (Piers Plowman)
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alliteration (countable anduncountable,pluralalliterations)
- The repetition ofconsonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involvingstressedsyllables.
- Hypernyms:consonance,consonant rhyme,pararhyme
- Coordinate term:assonance
2018 March 20, “Fish fury flares over Brussels Brexit deal”, inITV[1]:So fish fury all round, as there has been in the past. And as an aside, thatalliteration 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.
the repetition of letters or sounds
- Asturian:alliteración f
- Catalan:al·literació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:頭韻 /头韵 (zh)(tóuyùn),雙聲 /双声 (zh)(shuāngshēng)
- Danish:allitteration c
- Dutch:alliteratie (nl),stafrijm (nl)
- Esperanto:aliteracio
- Faroese:stavrím n,bókstavarím n,stuðul m
- Finnish:alkusointu (fi),allitteraatio (fi),alliteraatio
- French:allitération (fr) f
- Galician:aliteración (gl) f
- Georgian:ალიტერაცია(aliṭeracia)
- German:Alliteration (de) f
- Greek:παρήχηση (el) f(paríchisi)
- Hungarian:alliteráció (hu)
- Icelandic:stuðlun f,stafrím n
- Indonesian:aliterasi (id)
- Irish:uaim f
- Italian:allitterazione (it) f
- Japanese:頭韻 (ja)(touin)
- Korean:두운 (ko)(duun)
- Latin:(pleaseverify)alliteratio f
- Manx:aalettyraghys m
- Māori:orokati tārua,orokatirua
- Occitan:alliteracion f
- Persian:واج آرایی(vâj ârâyi)
- Polish:aliteracja (pl) f
- Portuguese:aliteração (pt) f
- Russian:аллитера́ция (ru) f(alliterácija)
- Sanskrit:अनुप्रास (sa) m(anuprāsa)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:алитера́ција f
- Latin:aliterácija f
- Spanish:aliteración (es) f
- Swedish:allitteration (sv) c,stavrim (sv) n,bokstavsrim (sv) n,uddrim n
- Tagalog:aliterasyon,saulinig
- Tamil:மோனை (ta)(mōṉai)
- Telugu:అనుప్రాసము (te)(anuprāsamu)
- Turkish:aliterasyon (tr),ses benzeşmesi
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