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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
A figure of speech in which a word is repeated so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rhetoric, uncountable
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noun
(rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: repetition
History
From Latin plŏcē, from Ancient Greek πλοκή (plokḗ, “complication”).
