Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
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noun
The substitution of one grammatical form for another that violates a grammatical rule.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
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noun
a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I')
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: rhetorical device
History
From Ancient Greek ἐναλλαγή (enallagḗ, “interchange, variation”).
