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polysyndeton

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Noun

HYPHEN

pol=y=syn=de=ton

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun polysyndeton has 1 sense

polysyndeton(n = noun.communication) - using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy');

is a kind of

rhetorical device

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CIDE DICTIONARY

polysyndeton, n. [NL., from Gr. poly`s many + bound together, fr. to bind together; with + to bind.].

A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, “We have ships and men and money and stores.” Opposed to asyndeton. [1913 Webster]