Assonant

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  • adj. Characterized by assonance; having successive similar vowel sounds.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having a resemblance of sounds.
  • adj. Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having a resemblance of articulate sounds.
  • In prosody, pertaining to or characterized by assonance.
  • n. A word resembling another in sound. Specifically In prosody, a word forming an assonance with another word. See assonance, 2.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables
  • adj. having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables
  • Equivalent
    same    rhyming    riming    rhymed