Search Result for "assonant": 
Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables;
- Example: "note the assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'"

2. having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Assonant \As"so*nant\, a. [L. assonans, p. pr. of assonare to
   sound to, to correspond to in sound; ad + sonare to sound,
   sonus sound: cf. F. assonant. See Sound.]
   1. Having a resemblance of sounds.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Pros.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called
      assonance; not consonant.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

assonant
    adj 1: having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound)
           occurring in successive stressed syllables; "note the
           assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'"
    2: having the same vowel sound occurring with different
       consonants in successive words or stressed syllables