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Etymology
L. ad + litera letter.

Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪ��n|-eɪ��n

Noun
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1. The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -

#:Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. -Milton.
#:Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. -Tennyson.

Usage notes
The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort. Later poets also employed it.

:In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne, I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. -P. Plowman.

Translations

Croatian: t-|hr|aliteracija|f
Finnish: t|fi|alkusointu
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