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De - Pt| English Dictionary: pleonasm | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for pleonasm | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Pleonasm \Ple"o*nasm\,, n. [L. pleonasmus, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to be more than enough, to abound, fr.[?], neut. of [?], more, compar. of [?] much. See {Full}, a., and cf. {Poly-}, {Plus}.] (Rhet.) Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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pleonasm Redundancy of expression; tautology. (1995-03-25) | |
