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Meaning of Alliteration | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
əˌlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən

Definitions

  1. The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables.
  2. The recurrence of the same letters or sounds in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

Equivalents

العربية الجناس
Català al·literació
Ελληνικά παρήχηση
Esperanto aliteracio
Español aliteración
Français allitération
Gaeilge uaim
Galego aliteración
हिन्दी अनुप्रास
Bahasa Indonesia aliterasi
Íslenska stafrím stuðlun
Italiano allitterazione
日本語 頭韻
ქართული ალიტერაცია
한국어 두운
Kurdî alîterasyon
Nederlands alliteratie stafrijm
Polski aliteracja
Português aliteração
Русский аллитерация
తెలుగు అనుప్రాసము
Tagalog aliterasyon
Türkçe aliterasyon

Examples

“So fish fury all round, as there has been in the past. And as an aside, that alliteration was, sadly, not mine that of a former political correspondent of the Daily Record, John Deans, and applied to the 'cod wars' with Iceland.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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