assonance

See also: assonancé

English

From French assonance, from Latin assonāre.

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

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.
- 1938, T.H. White, The Sword in the Stone, Collins, Chapter 12.
  "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.'"

repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds

Albanian: asonancë (sq)
Bulgarian: съзвучие (bg) n (sǎzvučie)
Catalan: assonància f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 類韻／类韵 (lèiyùn), 半諧音／半谐音 (bànxiéyīn), 准押韻／准押韵 (zhǔnyāyùn), 元韻／元韵 (zh) (yuányùn)
Czech: asonance f
Dutch: assonantie (nl) f
Finnish: assonanssi
French: assonance (fr) f
Georgian: ასონანსი (asonansi)
Ido: asonanco (io)
Indonesian: asonansi (id), purwakanti (id)
Irish: amas m
Japanese: 類韻 (るいいん, ruiin), 半諧音 (はんかいおん, hankaion)
Kazakh: ассонанс (assonans)
Maori: oropuare tārua, oropuarerua
Polish: asonans (pl) m, asonacja f (rare), asonancja f (rare)
Russian: ассона́нс (ru) m (assonáns)
Spanish: asonancia (es) f
Swedish: assonans (sv) c
Tagalog: parihunig
Turkish: asonans (tr)
Welsh: cyseinedd f

assonance f (plural assonances)

assonance

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