pleonast
English
editNoun
editpleonast (plural pleonasts)
- (rare) One who is addicted to pleonasm, or redundancy in speech or writing.
- 1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash:
- the mellifluous pleonast had done oiling his paradox with fresh polysyllables
References
edit- “pleonast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French pléonaste.
Noun
editpleonast n (uncountable)
Declension
editsingular only | indefinite | definite |
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nominative-accusative | pleonast | pleonastul |
genitive-dative | pleonast | pleonastului |
vocative | pleonastule |