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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Assonance \As"so*nance\, n. [Cf. F. assonance. See {Assonant}.] 1. Resemblance of sound. ``The disagreeable assonance of `sheath' and `sheathed.''' --Steevens. 2. (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as calamo and platano baby and chary. The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. --Hallam. 3. Incomplete correspondence. Assonance between facts seemingly remote. --Lowell. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: assonance n : the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words [syn: {vowel rhyme}]
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