masculine rhyme
nounProsody.
a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
Origin of masculine rhyme
1First recorded in 1575–85
Words Nearby masculine rhyme
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
How to use masculine rhyme in a sentence
The end of the line may, in any order, have either a masculine rhyme, as in ll.
A History of English Versification | Jakob Schipper
British Dictionary definitions for masculine rhyme
masculine rhyme
noun
prosody a rhyme between stressed monosyllables or between the final stressed syllables of polysyllabic words: book, cook; collect, direct Compare feminine rhyme
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
Browse