Alliterate

Word ALLITERATE
Character 10
Hyphenation al lit er ate
Pronunciations /əˈlɪ.tə.ɹeɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Alliterate"

What do we mean by alliterate?

To use alliteration in speech or writing. intransitive verb

To have or contain alliteration. intransitive verb

To form or arrange with alliteration. intransitive verb

To begin with the same letter or sound, as two or more words in immediate or near succession; agree in initial letter or sound; make an alliteration.

To use alliteration.

One given to the use of alliteration. noun

Formed by or showing alliteration: as, alliterate words.

To employ or place so as to make alliteration. transitive verb

To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration. intransitive verb

To use alliteration verb

Use alliteration as a form of poetry verb

To exhibit alliteration.

To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Alliterate

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The word "alliterate" in example sentences

(What you meant, I assume, was "alliterate", as in "bobby bounced a bright blue ball before bounding back to billy's") ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps you could give us the some sort of creatively alliterate Christmas film list. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(Like Chesterton, I alliterate too much; and for the same reason, which is that I will not knock off using the right word and seek a feeble substitute, merely because too many of the right words begin with the same letter of the alphabet.) ❋ Superversive (2010)

I will also pitch the other more wordy, alliterate, and somewhat baser title that came to mind: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Scanning verse is infinitely more complex that we lead students to realize (lest they despair), so I would say that the meter of the line is perfectly acceptable OE verse, though, as you point out, it doesn't alliterate. ❋ Richard Nokes (2006)

By nonreader, we met alliterate — someone who can read perfectly well, but prefers other forms of communication and art over text. ❋ Unknown (2008)

| Reply being the notorious nitpicker (and alliterate to boot!) that I am. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Justice Peter Zarella, for example, made a thoughtful and alliterate injunction: "The ancient definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman has its basis in biology, not bigotry." ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Pastors on Patrol" reminds me of Hell's Grannies and "Irish Send Fast Filly to Feature in Festival" is too lyrical to be anything but an alliterate contrivance. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Whether two sounds are perceived to alliterate depends on how close they are to each other, whether the two syllables are stressed or not, and - the issue here - whether the sounds are sufficiently phonetically similar to be perceived to be 'the same'. ❋ DC (2007)

Pairs of words with the same beginning letter and sound are alliterate. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I admit it, sometimes these sites are useful or fascinating rather than silly, but that doesn't alliterate quite as nicely. ❋ Unknown (2005)

When you alliterate h, it sounds like heavy breathing. ❋ Elizabeth Chandler (2003)

(All vowels are held to alliterate with each other.) ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)

R. reads mōdega for gōda, "because the attribute cannot be separated from the word modified unless the two alliterate." l. ❋ Robert Sharp (1879)

R. reads môdega for gôda, "because the attribute cannot be separated from the word modified unless the two alliterate." l. ❋ Robert Sharp (1879)

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