• Alliteration

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

    Origin

    From Latin ad ("to, towards, near") and litera ("a letter").

    Full definition of alliteration

    Noun

    alliteration

    (plural alliterations)
    1. The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
    2. The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.
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