assonance : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: assonance	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
assonance n the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words Synonym(s): assonance, vowel rhyme
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Assonance \As"sonance\, n. [Cf. F. assonance. See {Assonant}.] 1. Resemblance of sound. [bd]The disagreeable assonance* of [lsquo]sheath' and [lsquo]sheathed.'[b8] --Steevens. 2. (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. --Hallam. 3. Incomplete correspondence. Assonance between facts seemingly remote. --Lowell.