noun, verb, rhymed, rhym⋅ing.| 1. | identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse. |
| 2. | a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind. |
| 3. | verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines. |
| 4. | a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence. |
| 5. | verse (def. 4). |
| 6. | to treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose. |
| 7. | to compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes. |
| 8. | to use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes. |
| 9. | to make rhyme or verse; versify. |
| 10. | to use rhyme in writing verse. |
| 11. | to form a rhyme, as one word or line with another: a word that rhymes with orange. |
| 12. | to be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse: poetry that rhymes. |
| 13. | rhyme or reason, logic, sense, or plan: There was no rhyme or reason for what they did. |
