consonance
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English consonance, from Middle French consonance, from Latin cōnsonantia.[1] Doublet of consonancy. By surface analysis, con- + son- + -ance.
Noun
[edit]consonance (countable and uncountable, plural consonances)
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lady lounges lazily, dark deep dread crept in |
- (prosody) A form of rhyme having the same consonants but different vowels.
- Synonyms: consonant rhyme, pararhyme
- Antonyms: perfect rhyme, exact rhyme, full rhyme
- Hypernyms: imperfect rhyme; rhyme; concord
- Hyponym: alliteration
- Coordinate terms: assonance, vowel rhyme
- (chiefly music) Harmony; agreement; absence of discordance.
- Synonyms: concord, concordance
- Antonyms: dissonance, cacophony
- 1865, John Tyndall, On Radiation: The "Rede" Lecture, Delivered in the Senate-house Before the University of Cambridge on Tuesday, May 16, 1865, page 33
- Like a musical string, the optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance, while it refuses to be excited by others of almost infinitely greater energy, whose period of recurrence are not in unison with its own.
Antonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the repetition of consonant sounds
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music harmony; agreement
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References
[edit]- ^ “consonance, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]consonance f (plural consonances)
- consonance
- the oral impression, usually referring to languages
- un accent à consonance espagnole
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Further reading
[edit]- “consonance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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