alliterate
See also: aliterate
English
Etymology
Back-formation from alliterationCategory:English back-formations#ALLITERATE.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈlɪ.tə.ɹeɪt/, [əˈlɪ.ɾə.ɹeɪt]Category:English 4-syllable words#ALLITERATECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ALLITERATE
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#ALLITERATEAudio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
alliterate (third-person singular simple present alliterates, present participle alliterating, simple past and past participle alliterated)Category:English lemmas#ALLITERATECategory:English verbs#ALLITERATECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ALLITERATECategory:Pages with entries#ALLITERATECategory:Pages with 1 entry#ALLITERATE
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ALLITERATE) To exhibit alliteration.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ALLITERATE) To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration.
- 1888, George Theodore Dippold, Richard Wagner's Poem the Ring of the Nibelung: Explained and in Part Translated:
- It is a strophe of six lines, of which the first and second and the fourth and fifth belong together, while the third and sixth are independently alliterated.Category:English terms with quotations#ALLITERATE
Synonyms
- (exhibit alliteration): alliterize
Derived terms
Translations
to exhibit alliteration
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