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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.
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


rhymer, noun
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rhym·er also rim·er   (rī'mər)   
n.  One who composes rhymes.
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