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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024as•so•nance (as′ə nəns),USA pronunciation n. - resemblance of sounds.
- Also called vowel rhyme. [Pros.]rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.
- partial agreement or correspondence.
- French, equivalent. to asson(ant) sounding in answer (see as-, sonant) + -ance -ance
- 1720–30;
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: assonance /ˈæsənəns/ n - the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery
- partial correspondence; rough similarity
Etymology: 18th Century: from French, from Latin assonāre to sound, from sonāre to soundˈassonant adj , n |