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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 as·so·nance /ˈæsənən(t)s/
 音的類似,類音,類韻

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 As·so·nance n.
 1. Resemblance of sound. “The disagreeable assonance ofsheath' and ‘sheathed.'”
 2. Pros. A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.
    The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard.   --Hallam.
 3. Incomplete correspondence.
    Assonance between facts seemingly remote.   --Lowell.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 assonance
      n : the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables
          of successive words [syn: vowel rhyme]