alliteration
noun/əˌlɪtəˈreɪʃn/
/əˌlɪtəˈreɪʃn/
[uncountable] (specialist)- the use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words that are close together, as in sing a song of sixpence see also assonanceWordfinderTopics Literature and writingc2, Languagec2Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin alliteratio(n-), from Latin ad- (expressing addition) + littera ‘letter’.
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