2. (Pros.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
assonant — assonant, ante [ asɔnɑ̃, ɑ̃t ] adj. • 1721; lat. assonans, p. prés. de adsonare → assonance ♦ Qui produit une assonance. Voyelle assonante. Rimes assonantes. ● assonant, assonante adjectif Qui produit une assonance. assonant, ante adj. Qui forme… … Encyclopédie Universelle
assonant — index concurrent (united) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
assonant — assonant, ante (a sso nan, nan t ) adj. Qui a une assonance. Vers assonants, rimes assonantes. ÉTYMOLOGIE Adsonans, de ad, à, et sonare, sonner … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
assonant — assonance ► NOUN ▪ resemblance of sound between words arising from the rhyming of vowels only (e.g. sonnet, porridge) or from use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. cold, culled). DERIVATIVES assonant adjective. ORIGIN from Latin … English terms dictionary
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 • Similar to: ↑same • Derivationally related forms: ↑assonate,… … Useful english dictionary
assonant — adjective or noun see assonance … New Collegiate Dictionary
ASSONANT — ANTE. adj. Qui produit une assonance. Il ne s emploie guère qu au pluriel. Mots assonants. Il faut éviter les terminaisons assonantes. Syllabes assonantes … Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)
assonant — See assonance. * * * … Universalium
assonant — adjective Characterized by assonance; having successive similar vowel sounds … Wiktionary
assonant — Synonyms and related words: accordant, according, alliteral, alliterating, alliterative, assonantal, attuned, belabored, blended, blending, chanting, chiming, cliche ridden, concordant, consonant, dingdong, harmonic, harmonious, harmonizing,… … Moby Thesaurus
