Assonance Definition

ăsə-nəns
assonances
noun
assonances
Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words, as in.
American Heritage
Likeness of sound, as in a series of words or syllables.
Webster's New World
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants, as in the phrase tilting at windmills.
American Heritage
Repetition of a vowel sound in stressed syllables in which the consonant sounds are unlike (Ex.: late, make)
Webster's New World
Rough similarity; approximate agreement.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • vowel rhyme

Other Word Forms of Assonance

Noun

Singular:
assonance
Plural:
assonances

Origin of Assonance

  • French from Latin assonāre to respond to ad- ad- sonāre to sound swen- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French assonance, from Latin word assonare.

    From Wiktionary

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