rhyme
identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind.
verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines.
a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence.
to treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose.
to compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes.
to use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes.
to make rhyme or verse; versify.
to use rhyme in writing verse.
to form a rhyme, as one word or line with another: a word that rhymes with orange.
to be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse: poetry that rhymes.
Idioms about rhyme
rhyme or reason, logic, sense, or plan: There was no rhyme or reason for what they did.
Origin of rhyme
1- Sometimes rime .
word story For rhyme
The source of the French rime is from an unrecorded Gallo-Romance verb rimāre “to set in a row,” a derivative of the Germanic noun rīm “number, series,” and possibly developing the senses “series of rhymed syllables” and “rhymed verse.”
The English spelling rhyme dates from around 1600 and shows the influence of the unrelated Latin rhetorical term rhythmus “a patterned sequence of sounds; measured flow of words or phrases in prose,” a borrowing from Greek rhythmós, which has the same meanings.
Other words from rhyme
- rhymer, noun
- in·ter·rhyme, verb (used without object), in·ter·rhymed, in·ter·rhym·ing.
- mis·rhymed, adjective
- non·rhyme, noun
- non·rhymed, adjective
- non·rhym·ing, adjective
- outrhyme, verb (used with object), out·rhymed, out·rhym·ing.
- un·rhyme, verb (used with object), un·rhymed, un·rhym·ing.
- well-rhymed, adjective
Words that may be confused with rhyme
- rhyme , rhythm
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How to use rhyme in a sentence
First, bubonic (rhymes with pneumonic but is altogether different) is a local infection sequestered in a lymph node.
Bubonic Plague Is Back (but It Never Really Left) | Kent Sepkowitz | November 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhile promoting his new film Horns on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon convinced the actor to spit some rhymes for the audience.
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It was about a trifle, some little thing that she had put into rhyme for him; how many rhymes she had written for him this summer!
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline | Jennie M. DrinkwaterUnder Nurse-tales, I include the extremely puerile stories of the nursery, often (as in the German ones) interlaced with rhymes.
The truth is, we all write Irish rhymes, and the Dean contrives to be more exact that way than most of us.'
This variety is produced by combining in different manners the verse lengths, and by changes in the succession of rhymes.
Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred DownerHow lovers rashGot mittens at the spelling school!How many a mute, inglorious fool Wrote rhymes and sighed and died—mustache!
The Book of Humorous Verse | Various
British Dictionary definitions for rhyme
archaic rime
/ (raɪm) /
identity of the terminal sounds in lines of verse or in words
a word that is identical to another in its terminal sound: ``while'' is a rhyme for ``mile''
a verse or piece of poetry having corresponding sounds at the ends of the lines: the boy made up a rhyme about his teacher
any verse or piece of poetry
rhyme or reason sense, logic, or meaning: this proposal has no rhyme or reason
to use (a word) or (of a word) to be used so as to form a rhyme; be or make identical in sound
to render (a subject) into rhyme
to compose (verse) in a metrical structure
Origin of rhyme
1- See also masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme, eye rhyme
Derived forms of rhyme
- rhymeless or rimeless, adjective
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for rhyme
A similarity of sound between words, such as moon, spoon, croon, tune, and June. Rhyme is often employed in verse.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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