alliteration

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.
The recurrence of the same letters or sounds in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

/əˌlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən/ [əˌlɪɾəˈɹeɪʃən] En-ca-alliteration.oga

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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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