ANNOMINA'TION, noun [Latin ad and nominatio, from nomino, to name, from nomen.] 1. A pun; the use of words nearly alike in sound, but of different meanings; a paronomasy. 2. Alliteration, or the use of two or more words successively beginning with the same letter.
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