Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by alliteration; alliterational: as, the alliteral languages of Africa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to, or characterized by,
alliteration .
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Examples
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There was no doubt but that the girl was in rather a dubious state of mind over it, but the silver dollar clinched her resolution, and she walked firmly off, without a backward glance in the direction of the gurgling Samuel Saul, which was the alliteral name of the yellow bundle.
What Two Children Did Charlotte E. Chittenden
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MORGAN (at home in a series of alliteral vowels, which none but a
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MORGAN (at home in a series of alliteral vowels, which none but
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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MORGAN (at home in a series of alliteral vowels, which none but a
My Novel — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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