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homoeoteleuton

homoeoteleuton is the alternative form of homeoteleuton.

Meaning of homeoteleuton

Noun

homeoteleuton (plural homeoteleuta or homeoteleutons)

  1. (rhetoric) The repetition of endings in words; near rhyme.
    • Homoioteleuton makes the measure chime
      With the same endings of the fetter'd rhyme.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Homeoteleuton.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 91
  2. The accidental omission when copying a text, of text between repeated words or phrases, as the eye skips from one to the next without noticing the words in between.

Forms of homoeoteleuton

pluralhomoeoteleutons
pluralhomoeoteleuta

Questions about homoeoteleuton

What is homoeoteleuton the alternative form of?
Homoeoteleuton is the alternative form of homeoteleuton.

Words near homoeoteleuton in the dictionary

  1. homoeosis
  2. homoeostasis
  3. homoeostatic
  4. homoeoteleuta
  5. homoeoteleutic
  6. homoeoteleuton
  7. homoeoteleutons
  8. homoeotherm
  9. homoeothermal
  10. homoeothermic
  11. homoeothermous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homoeoteleuton (page history and authors); homeoteleuton (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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