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as·so·nance    Audio Help   [as-uh-nuhns] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.resemblance of sounds.
2.Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.
3.partial agreement or correspondence.
[Origin: 1720–30; < F, equiv. to asson(ant) sounding in answer (see as-, sonant) + -ance -ance]

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as·so·nant, adjective, noun
as·so·nan·tal    Audio Help   [as-uh-nan-tl] Pronunciation Key, as·so·nan·tic, adjective
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as·so·nance    Audio Help   (ās'ə-nəns)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words, as in: "that dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea" (William Butler Yeats).
  2. The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants, as in the phrase tilting at windmills.
  3. Rough similarity; approximate agreement.


[French, from Latin assonāre, to respond to : ad-, ad- + sonāre, to sound; see swen- in Indo-European roots.]

as'so·nant adj. & n., as'so·nan'tal (-nān'tl) adj.
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assonant

adjective
1. having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables; "note the assonant words and syllables in 'tilting at windmills'" 
2. having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables 

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