alliteration
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
alliteration/əlɪtəˈreɪʃn/
▶noun the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
– derivatives
alliterate verb,
alliterative adjective,
alliteratively adverb.
alliterate verb,
alliterative adjective,
alliteratively adverb.
– origin C17: from med. L. alliteratio(n-), from L. ad- (expressing addition) + littera ‘letter’.
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