Standard Lemma guide
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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
The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
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Synonyms: epiphora, antistrophe
Antonyms: anaphora
noun
An arrangement of chlorophyll grains on the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to apostrophe (an arrangement at right angles to the surface).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: epiphora
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: repetition
History
Borrowed from Latin epistrophē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπιστροφή (epistrophḗ).
