We studied the Concordance to Shakespeare to accumulate examples of alliteration.
Source: tatoeba (280165)
Alliteration
//əˌlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən//
Synonyms for "alliteration" (46 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (23)
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4 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriesTranslations
49 translations across 35 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- alliteración noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Catalan
1 entries- al·literació noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 雙聲 /双声 noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- 頭韻 /头韵 noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Danish
1 entries- allitteration noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Dutch
2 entries- alliteratie noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- stafrijm noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Esperanto
1 entries- aliteracio noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Faroese
3 entries- bókstavarím noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- stavrím noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- stuðul noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Finnish
3 entries- alkusointu noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- alliteraatio noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- allitteraatio noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
French
1 entries- allitération noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Galician
1 entries- aliteración noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Georgian
1 entries- ალიტერაცია noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
German
1 entries- Alliteration noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Greek
1 entries- παρήχηση noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Hungarian
1 entries- alliteráció noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Icelandic
2 entries- stafrím noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- stuðlun noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Indonesian
1 entries- aliterasi noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Irish
1 entries- uaim noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Italian
1 entries- allitterazione noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Japanese
1 entries- 頭韻 noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Korean
1 entries- 두운 noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Manx
1 entries- aalettyraghys noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Māori
2 entries- orokati tārua noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- orokatirua noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Occitan
1 entries- alliteracion noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Persian
1 entries- واج آرایی noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Polish
1 entries- aliteracja noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Portuguese
1 entries- aliteração noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Russian
1 entries- аллитера́ция noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Sanskrit
1 entries- अनुप्रास noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- aliterácija noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- алитера́ција noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Spanish
1 entries- aliteración noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Swedish
4 entries- allitteration noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- bokstavsrim noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- stavrim noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- uddrim noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Tagalog
2 entries- aliterasyon noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- saulinig noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Tamil
1 entries- மோனை noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Telugu
1 entries- అనుప్రాసము noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Turkish
2 entries- aliterasyon noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
- ses benzeşmesi noun (the repetition of letters or sounds)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Old English poetry was based on alliteration rather than end rhyme.
Source: tatoeba (9517301)
I don't like Tom Jackson's writing because of all the facile alliteration.
Source: tatoeba (11978499)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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