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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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

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