Usually means: Redundant use of similar words.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word pleonasm:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleonasm: Merriam-Webster
  2. pleonasm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pleonasm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pleonasm: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pleonasm: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pleonasm, pleonasm: Wordnik
  7. pleonasm: Wiktionary
  8. pleonasm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pleonasm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pleonasm: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Pleonasm, pleonasm: Dictionary.com
  12. pleonasm: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Pleonasm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Pleonasm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. pleonasm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. pleonasm: Rhymezone
  17. Pleonasm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. pleonasm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. pleonasm: FreeDictionary.org
  20. pleonasm: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. pleonasm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. pleonasm: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Pleonasm: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  3. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  4. Pleonasm: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  5. PLEONASM: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pleonasm: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleonasm: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. pleonasm: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Pleonasm: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Pleonasm: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. pleonasm: Medical dictionary
  6. Pleonasm: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleonasm: A Word A Day
  2. pleonasm: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pleonasm: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pleonasms as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
noun:  (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.

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