Usually means: Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
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  1. alliterative: Merriam-Webster
  2. alliterative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alliterative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alliterative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alliterative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alliterative, alliterative: Wordnik
  7. alliterative: Wiktionary
  8. alliterative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. alliterative: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Alliterative, alliterative: Dictionary.com
  11. Alliterative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Alliterative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. alliterative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. alliterative: Rhymezone
  15. Alliterative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. alliterative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. alliterative: FreeDictionary.org
  18. alliterative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. alliterative: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. alliterative: Merriam-Webster

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  1. alliterative: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alliterative)

▸ adjective:  In the form or style of alliteration.

Similar:
rhyming, riming, narratorly, letterwise, circumlocutionary, authorly, alphabetical, alkin, abecedarian, strophically, more...

Opposite:
non-alliterative, unalliterative, disalliterative

Phrases:
Alliterative verse, alliterative revival, more...

Colors:
    azure,     amber,     amethyst,     aquamarine,     almond, more...

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Similar:
rhyming, riming, narratorly, letterwise, circumlocutionary, authorly, alphabetical, alkin, abecedarian, strophically, more...

Opposite:
non-alliterative, unalliterative, disalliterative

Phrases:
Alliterative verse, alliterative revival, more...

Colors:
    azure,     amber,     amethyst,     aquamarine,     almond, more...



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