alliteration

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Pronunciation

/əˌlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən/ (US)

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/əˌlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən/ (US) · [əˌlɪɾəˈɹeɪʃən] (US)

Definition of alliteration

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, uncountable)The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables.

“So fish fury all round, as there has been in the past. And as an aside, that alliteration was, sadly, not mine that of a former political correspondent of the Daily Record, John Deans, and applied to the 'cod wars' with Iceland.”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables.

“So fish fury all round, as there has been in the past. And as an aside, that alliteration was, sadly, not mine that of a former political correspondent of the Daily Record, John Deans, and applied to the 'cod wars' with Iceland.”
(countable, uncountable)The recurrence of the same letters or sounds in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

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From New Latin allīterātiō, from allīterātus, from allīterō, from Latin ad (“to, towards, near”) and lītera (“a letter”).

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