Definition of paronomasia in English:

paronomasia

noun ˌparənəˈmeɪzɪəˌperənōˈmāZH(ē)ə

A play on words; a pun.
文字游戏；双关语
Example sentencesExamples
- The last example also contains paronomasia; here, the pun is on possessed meaning both having come into possession and unreasonably determined.
- Here, as throughout the poem, her paronomasia acts as a device for eliciting the sensitive connections between words and our physical response to them.
- That humorous lyric mentioned earlier, ‘You can't have your Kate and Edith, too’ and the song ‘Overnight Male’ demonstrate paronomasia, use of words alike in sound but different in meaning.
- Michael Wood's essay, clearly a labor of love, discusses Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres, as well as its ambitious translation, concentrating on the author's Joycean ‘besetting virtue,’ paronomasia.
- This run of pointed paronomasia comes to a head in ‘fetters,’ which gathers to itself the accumulated sense, minted in the interests of others, of discursive abstractions that bind.

Origin

Late 16th century: via Latin from Greek paronomasia, from para- 'beside' (expressing alteration) + onomasia 'naming' (from onomazein 'to name', from onoma 'a name').

Definition of paronomasia in US English:

paronomasia

nounˌperənōˈmāZH(ē)ə

A play on words; a pun.
文字游戏；双关语
Example sentencesExamples
- Michael Wood's essay, clearly a labor of love, discusses Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres, as well as its ambitious translation, concentrating on the author's Joycean ‘besetting virtue,’ paronomasia.
- This run of pointed paronomasia comes to a head in ‘fetters,’ which gathers to itself the accumulated sense, minted in the interests of others, of discursive abstractions that bind.
- That humorous lyric mentioned earlier, ‘You can't have your Kate and Edith, too’ and the song ‘Overnight Male’ demonstrate paronomasia, use of words alike in sound but different in meaning.
- Here, as throughout the poem, her paronomasia acts as a device for eliciting the sensitive connections between words and our physical response to them.
- The last example also contains paronomasia; here, the pun is on possessed meaning both having come into possession and unreasonably determined.

Origin

Late 16th century: via Latin from Greek paronomasia, from para- ‘beside’ (expressing alteration) + onomasia ‘naming’ (from onomazein ‘to name’, from onoma ‘a name’).

词汇	paronomasia
释义	Definition of paronomasia in English: paronomasia noun ˌparənəˈmeɪzɪəˌperənōˈmāZH(ē)ə A play on words; a pun. 文字游戏；双关语 Example sentencesExamples The last example also contains paronomasia; here, the pun is on possessed meaning both having come into possession and unreasonably determined. Here, as throughout the poem, her paronomasia acts as a device for eliciting the sensitive connections between words and our physical response to them. That humorous lyric mentioned earlier, ‘You can't have your Kate and Edith, too’ and the song ‘Overnight Male’ demonstrate paronomasia, use of words alike in sound but different in meaning. Michael Wood's essay, clearly a labor of love, discusses Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres, as well as its ambitious translation, concentrating on the author's Joycean ‘besetting virtue,’ paronomasia. This run of pointed paronomasia comes to a head in ‘fetters,’ which gathers to itself the accumulated sense, minted in the interests of others, of discursive abstractions that bind. Origin Late 16th century: via Latin from Greek paronomasia, from para- 'beside' (expressing alteration) + onomasia 'naming' (from onomazein 'to name', from onoma 'a name'). Definition of paronomasia in US English: paronomasia nounˌperənōˈmāZH(ē)ə A play on words; a pun. 文字游戏；双关语 Example sentencesExamples Michael Wood's essay, clearly a labor of love, discusses Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres, as well as its ambitious translation, concentrating on the author's Joycean ‘besetting virtue,’ paronomasia. This run of pointed paronomasia comes to a head in ‘fetters,’ which gathers to itself the accumulated sense, minted in the interests of others, of discursive abstractions that bind. That humorous lyric mentioned earlier, ‘You can't have your Kate and Edith, too’ and the song ‘Overnight Male’ demonstrate paronomasia, use of words alike in sound but different in meaning. Here, as throughout the poem, her paronomasia acts as a device for eliciting the sensitive connections between words and our physical response to them. The last example also contains paronomasia; here, the pun is on possessed meaning both having come into possession and unreasonably determined. Origin Late 16th century: via Latin from Greek paronomasia, from para- ‘beside’ (expressing alteration) + onomasia ‘naming’ (from onomazein ‘to name’, from onoma ‘a name’).
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