Alliteration
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Origin
From Latin ad ("to, towards, near") and litera ("a letter").
Full definition of alliteration
Noun
alliteration
(plural alliterations)- The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
- The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.