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Definition of alliterate in English: alliterateverb əˈlɪtəreɪtəˈlɪdəˌreɪt [no object]1(of a phrase or line of verse) contain words which begin with the same sound or letter. his first and last names alliterated Example sentencesExamples - You'll hear how the stanza rounds off the sequence of long, unrhymed lines with a bob-and-wheel, a series of shorter, rhyming lines that also alliterate.
- I think I might email the programme and ask them to choose something that alliterates otherwise that's going to irritate me for goodness knows how many years.
- ‘What I expected’ is an adroit compromise between the impulses to form and to freedom: ‘twist’ fails to rhyme convincingly with ‘pass,’ but in that failure assonates and alliterates with ‘questions.’
- The title should change every time a new poet is appointed and should alliterate or rhyme with the name of the new holder of the title.
- The oddly alliterated Fervent Fray of Fraternal Fervor, written and directed by Thomas Thompson, is the second festival offering.
- 1.1 Use words beginning with the same sound or letter.
Example sentencesExamples - Make it catchy of course, but rhyme, pun, and alliterate at your own risk.
- Canadian commentator Colby Cosh (hey it's Sunday, I'll alliterate if I want) has posted a quick thought on the comparative welfare recipient counts between Alberta and Saskatchewan.
- They also - and this is when you know a cricket-writer is really moved - began to alliterate, so Jayasuriya rapidly became the Marauder of Matara.
- I look up and see fat feathery fledglings flapping furiously, flying fairly fast (look at me, I'm alliterating)!
- The Anglo-Saxon tradition of alliterating half lines in verse might be argued an equal influence.
Origin Late 18th century: back-formation from alliteration. Rhymes iterate, obliterate, transliterate Definition of alliterate in US English: alliterateverbəˈlɪdəˌreɪtəˈlidəˌrāt [no object]1(of a phrase or line of verse) contain words which begin with the same sound or letter. his first and last names alliterated Example sentencesExamples - I think I might email the programme and ask them to choose something that alliterates otherwise that's going to irritate me for goodness knows how many years.
- The oddly alliterated Fervent Fray of Fraternal Fervor, written and directed by Thomas Thompson, is the second festival offering.
- You'll hear how the stanza rounds off the sequence of long, unrhymed lines with a bob-and-wheel, a series of shorter, rhyming lines that also alliterate.
- The title should change every time a new poet is appointed and should alliterate or rhyme with the name of the new holder of the title.
- ‘What I expected’ is an adroit compromise between the impulses to form and to freedom: ‘twist’ fails to rhyme convincingly with ‘pass,’ but in that failure assonates and alliterates with ‘questions.’
- 1.1 Use words that begin with the same sound or letter.
Example sentencesExamples - I look up and see fat feathery fledglings flapping furiously, flying fairly fast (look at me, I'm alliterating)!
- Make it catchy of course, but rhyme, pun, and alliterate at your own risk.
- Canadian commentator Colby Cosh (hey it's Sunday, I'll alliterate if I want) has posted a quick thought on the comparative welfare recipient counts between Alberta and Saskatchewan.
- They also - and this is when you know a cricket-writer is really moved - began to alliterate, so Jayasuriya rapidly became the Marauder of Matara.
- The Anglo-Saxon tradition of alliterating half lines in verse might be argued an equal influence.
Origin Late 18th century: back-formation from alliteration. |