Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a resemblance of articulate sounds.
- In prosody, pertaining to or characterized by assonance.
- noun A word resembling another in sound. Specifically In prosody, a word forming an assonance with another word. See
assonance , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a resemblance of sounds.
- adjective (Pros.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called
assonance ; not consonant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characterized by
assonance ; havingsuccessive similarvowel sounds .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables
- adjective having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables
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Examples
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The straitjacket of meter and cadence of its composition drew out the worst and best of whomever had already tried their hand in battle with assonant rhymes.
Yoani Sanchez: A Manual or a Sonnet? Yoani Sanchez 2011
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The straitjacket of meter and cadence of its composition drew out the worst and best of whomever had already tried their hand in battle with assonant rhymes.
Yoani Sanchez: A Manual or a Sonnet? Yoani Sanchez 2011
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The straitjacket of meter and cadence of its composition drew out the worst and best of whomever had already tried their hand in battle with assonant rhymes.
Yoani Sanchez: A Manual or a Sonnet? Yoani Sanchez 2011
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The story gave newspapers the opportunity to use their two favourite words together, resulting in the gleefully assonant “Terror Blunder”.
Terror Blunder joy 2009
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"What is the word for which you are seeking an assonant?"
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Respite comes, as one might expect with Dickens, in equally phonemic terms, floated upon (in that same paragraph) the sibilant, assonant, and iambic bonding of "inseparable and blessed" to describe the union of the title figure and Arthur Clennam, the man whose fetishistic vision of her impoverishment has seen her until now as a
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The assonant low short u vowel sound darkens the tone of this eerie image: smudged, thumbs, guns, fluttered.
Katherine Parrish reads Lisa Foad Lemon Hound 2009
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Alas, I do not have photographic evidence of the last artwork someone saddled this poor van with -- an assonant mural called "The Vein Train."
January 5th, 2006 spidersweb 2006
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According to conventional wisdom, the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu was discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, a dashing American explorer with a satisfyingly assonant name who later went on to be the Governor of Connecticut and a US Senator.
Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Who really discovered Machu Picchu? 2008
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Anyhoo, the sequence finds a new pattern in the regularity of two "couplets" of sonnets (1122), the opening sonnet marking the shift with assonant rhymes (I did reckon those rhymes gave a sense of instability and tension, pushing against the constraints, which ... fitted here; it kinda makes sense now why I felt that way).
Still Lives Hal Duncan 2006
whichbe commented on the word assonant
Not the sound of farts.
June 14, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word assonant
Oops, I think I sat on him.
December 25, 2009
john commented on the word assonant
I misread this as assonaut at first.
December 25, 2009