Assonance

//ˈæsənəns//

Synonyms for "assonance" (38 found)

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Related word relations

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Translations

34 translations across 25 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • asonancë noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • съзвучие noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Catalan

1 entries
  • assonància noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 元韻 /元韵 noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)
  • 准押韻 noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)
  • 半諧音 /半谐音 noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)
  • 類韻 /类韵 noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Czech

1 entries
  • asonance noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Dutch

1 entries
  • assonantie noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Finnish

1 entries
  • assonanssi noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

French

1 entries
  • assonance noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Georgian

1 entries
  • ასონანსი noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Ido

1 entries
  • asonanco noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Indonesian

2 entries
  • asonansi noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)
  • purwakanti noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Irish

1 entries
  • amas noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 半諧音 noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)
  • 類韻 noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Javanese

1 entries
  • ꦥꦸꦂꦮꦏꦤ꧀ꦛꦶ noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • ассонанс noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Malay

2 entries
  • asonansi noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)
  • runtun vokal noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Māori

2 entries
  • oropuare tārua noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)
  • oropuarerua noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Polish

3 entries
  • asonacja noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)
  • asonancja noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)
  • asonans noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Russian

1 entries
  • ассона́нс noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Spanish

1 entries
  • asonancia noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Swedish

1 entries
  • assonans noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • parihunig noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Turkish

1 entries
  • asonans noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Welsh

1 entries
  • cyseinedd noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Yoruba

1 entries
  • àwítúnwí fáwẹ̀lì noun (repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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Assonance is extremely important to Spanish poetry.

Source: tatoeba (11888987)

Assonance is a similarity between words based on their vowel sounds.

Source: tatoeba (11889288)

Altho this substitution of assonance for rime is uncommon in the more literary lyrics, which we may suppose to have been composed with the pen, it is still frequently to be found in the popular song, born on the lips of the singer, and set down in black and white only as an afterthought.

Source: tatoeba (12179827)

Assonance has value in poetry.

Source: tatoeba (12802532)

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