Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Repetition of the same sound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Repetition of the same sound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
repetition of the samesound
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek, meaning "same voice".
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Examples
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Out of the familiar, hollow tautophony of drumbeats there began to emerge a thread of actual melody -- an untraditional rise and fall of notes -- a tentative attack as it were, on the chromatic scale of the west.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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