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assonate

assonate verb: to correspond or exhibit agreement in (particularly vowel) sounds.

Verb

assonate (third-person singular simple present assonates, present participle assonating, simple past and past participle assonated)

  1. (rare) To correspond or exhibit agreement in (particularly vowel) sounds.
    • Part of the magic of her poetry was her ability to have her words assonate in the most propitious places.

assonate meaning in Tamil

assonate in Tamil

உயிரொலி இயைவுறு, உயிரொலி இயைவி

Forms of assonate

third-person singular presentassonates
present participleassonating
past participleassonated
pastassonated

Origin of assonate

From Latin assonō, from ad (“to, towards”) + sonō (“to sound, resound”).

Questions about assonate

What does assonate mean?
Assonate means to correspond or exhibit agreement in (particularly vowel) sounds.
What is assonate in Tamil?
Assonate in Tamil is உயிரொலி இயைவுறு, உயிரொலி இயைவி. See Assonate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is assonate?
Assonate is a verb.
What is the past tense of assonate?
The past tense of assonate is assonated.

Words near assonate in the dictionary

  1. assonant
  2. assonantal
  3. assonantic
  4. assonantly
  5. assonants
  6. assonate
  7. assonated
  8. assonates
  9. assonating
  10. Assonet
  11. assoon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: assonate (page history and authors); assonate (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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