Definitions for assonance

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assonance as·so·nance

Spelling: [as-uh-nuh ns]

IPA: /ˈæs ə nəns/

Assonance is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 240 anagrams from letters in assonance (aacennoss).

Definitions for assonance

noun

1. resemblance of sounds.
2. Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.
3. partial agreement or correspondence.

Origin of assonance

1720-30; French, equivalent to asson(ant) sounding in answer (see as-, sonant) + -ance -ance

Examples for assonance

It is an example of assonance which is lost in the translation.

In the lines just quoted there is no rhyme, but an assonance.

Yet there is an amount of assonance, which at times approaches to rhyme.

If the accented vowel is not a, the a of ai counts in the assonance.

Lines combining alliteration and rime or alliteration and assonance.

Not only is there no rhyme, but assonance is very carefully avoided.

Not being able to preserve the assonance, I have dropped the greater part of his title.

In our ode there is not much either of assonance or alliteration.

In words llanas or esdrjulas the assonance is of two vowels only.

It is, we might say, a rhythm of thought, an assonance of feeling.