Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To correspond in sound; rime in assonance; be assonant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To correspond in sound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
correspond in (particularly vowel )sounds .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance
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Examples
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Thus, in the middle of the dinner party, Miles announces that the team of solicitors he works for is called "Nasty, British and Short"; Anna, who bonded with Miles years before over repartee like "you can go assonate yourself", explains puns to Brooke with examples including "there's no business like slow business".
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Hi there, I'm Brooke Baldwin with a check of some of our top stories a Somali man is charged with trying to assonate a Danish artist known for drawing a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.
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José Eusebio Caro wrote similar hexameters, and, strange to say, made alternate lines assonate:
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_ (c) _ In stressed diphthongs and triphthongs only the vowels receiving the stress assonate, as in _vale, aire
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_ (d) _ In unstressed diphthongs and triphthongs only the strong vowels assonate, as in _turba, lluvia (ú-a), licencia, quisierais (é-a), pido, continuo (í-o) _.
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_Cantar de mío Cid_, I, 65 f.] _ (b) _ A word stressed on the penult may assonate with one page lx stressed on the antepenult.
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