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English
Noun
pleonast (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
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Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French pléonaste.
Noun
pleonast n (uncountable)
- pleonaste
Declension
declension of pleonast (singular only)
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singular
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indefinite articulation
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definite articulation
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(un) pleonast
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pleonastul
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(unui) pleonast
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pleonastului
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pleonastule
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