assonant

assonant

English

Etymology

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Adjective

assonant (comparative more assonant, superlative most assonant)

1. (prosody) Characterized by assonance; having successive similar vowel sounds.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with asonant.

Derived terms

• assonantal
• assonantly

Translations

characterized by assonance

Bulgarian: съзвучен (bg) (sǎzvučen) Finnish: yhteensointuva Polish: asonansowy Romanian: asonant (ro) Spanish: asonante (es)

Anagrams

• nanosats

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French

Participle

assonant

1. present participle of assoner

Further reading

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