HOW TO PRONOUNCE
alliteration
/əˌlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən/
Press play to hear how to pronounce alliteration.
American Pronunciation Guide · 0:47
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does alliteration mean?
noun
- The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables.
- The recurrence of the same letters or sounds in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/əˌlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən/
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
The unobtrusive, but distinctly felt, alliteration which runs through it, contributes something toward this lightsomeness.
In these exercises examples and difficult words are given in several languages, alliteration, sibilation, and all quips and turns of consonantal and vocalic expression, word-position, etc., are in use to test the power of speech alike of child and adult.
More book examples (2)
Avoiding the error into which his predecessor had fallen, the Archdeacon made use of a measure intelligible to people of every degree, in which alliteration is not observed, and which is called by the Welsh y mesur cyffredin, or the common measure.
“More alliteration. No, I don’t want Alec and Alonzo when I have a cold in the head. But what has happened you two? Now that I look at you closely you seem all lighted up with an internal iridescence. Why, you’re actually shining! What’s up?”