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rhyme

[rahym]

noun, verb, rhymed, rhym⋅ing.

–noun

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).

–verb (used with object)

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.

–verb (used without object)

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.

—Idiom

13.	rhyme or reason, logic, sense, or plan: There was no rhyme or reason for what they did.

Also, rime.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME rime < OF, deriv. of rimer to rhyme < Gallo-Romance *rimāre to put in a row ≪ OHG rīm series, row; prob. not connected with L rhythmus rhythm, although current sp. (from c1600) appar. by assoc. with this word

Related forms:

rhymer, noun

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rhym·er also rim·er (rī'mər)

n. One who composes rhymes.

Rhymer

Rhym"er\, n. One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster.

This would make them soon perceive what despicaple creatures our common rhymers and playwriters be. --Milton.

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