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
His journal to fairy-land, as narrated in the fifteenth-century romance, survives in the well-known ballad of Thomas the Rhymer.
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' | Compiled by Frank SidgwickThe ardent house-warming prepared for the passengers at the Inn Yard on Fire barely justifies the rapture of the rhymer.
Rowlandson the Caricaturist. First Volume | Joseph GregoMrs Rhymer was a friend of the old lady's of some thirty years' standing.
She Stands Accused | Victor MacClureThe fact that the poet is a rhymer and connected with the Duke's house rules out most other possibilities.
Poeta de Tristibus: Or, the Poet's Complaint | AnonymousThis 'fantastic pandemonium,' as it is called by a Sevillian rhymer, lasts for about eight to ten days.
The Story of Seville | Walter M. Gallichan
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
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Cultural definitions for rhyme
A similarity of sound between words, such as moon, spoon, croon, tune, and June. Rhyme is often employed in verse.
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