ASSONANT
Dictionary entry overview: What does assonant mean? • ASSONANT (adjective)
The adjective ASSONANT has 2 senses:
1. having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables
2. having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables
Familiarity information: ASSONANT used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ASSONANT (adjective)
Meaning:
Having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables
Context example:
note the assonant words and syllables in 'tilting at windmills'
Similar:
same (closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree)
Domain category:
rhyme; rime (correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds))
Meaning:
Having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables
Similar:
rhymed; rhyming; riming (having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds)
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