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assonant

assonant adjective: characterized by assonance; having successive similar vowel sounds.

Adjective

assonant (comparative more assonant, superlative most assonant)

  1. Characterized by assonance; having successive similar vowel sounds.

Noun

assonant (plural assonants)

  1. A sound that is assonant.

assonant meaning in Tamil

assonant in Tamil

ஒலி இயைவு உடைய

Forms of assonant

Adjective
comparativemore assonant
superlativemost assonant
Noun
pluralassonants

Origin of assonant

From Latin assonāns, present participle of assonō.

Words formed from assonant

Questions about assonant

What does assonant mean?
Assonant means characterized by assonance; having successive similar vowel sounds.
What is assonant in Tamil?
Assonant in Tamil is ஒலி இயைவு உடைய. See Assonant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is assonant?
Assonant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near assonant in the dictionary

  1. assoilzying
  2. Assomada
  3. assonance
  4. assonanced
  5. assonances
  6. assonant
  7. assonantal
  8. assonantic
  9. assonantly
  10. assonants
  11. assonate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: assonant (page history and authors); assonant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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