alliteration

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /əˌlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən/, [əˌlɪɾəˈɹeɪʃən]

Noun

alliteration

1. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
   • 2018 (March 20) Fish fury flares over Brussels Brexit deal ↗ ITV

     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.

2. The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

Related terms

• alliterational
• alliterative
• alliteratively
• alliterativeness

Translations

• French: allitération
• German: Alliteration
• Italian: allitterazione
• Portuguese: aliteração
• Russian: аллитера́ция
• Spanish: aliteración

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