Definitions for alliteration

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alliteration al·lit·er·a·tion

Spelling: [uh-lit-uh-rey-shuh n]

IPA: /əˌlɪt əˈreɪ ʃən/

Alliteration is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 856 anagrams from letters in alliteration (aaeiillnortt).

Definitions for alliteration

noun

1. the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration) as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration) as in each to all. Compare consonance (def 4a).
2. the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt alliteration's artful aid.

Origin of alliteration

1650-60; Medieval Latin alliterātiōn-, stem of alliterātiō, equivalent to al- al- + literātiō, modeled after obliterātiō obliteration b

Examples for alliteration

But if you can get past the predilection for alliteration and the teehee!

alliteration in relation to the parts of speech and to the order the order of words.

Consonance is very similar to this latter form of alliteration.

Nikita, surnamed Necator, with a sinister aptness of alliteration!

The "Cape to Cairo" railroad is another case of alliteration.

alliteration is nearly the only effect of that kind which the ancients had in common with us.

English poetry has used chiefly rhyme, stress, and alliteration.

The alliteration is without complexity,--a dreary procession of sibilants.

I congratulated him on a “well-deserved win” and he commended me my alliteration, smiling profusely all the while.

alliteration and rhyme together will, I am afraid, be too much for me.