Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Synonyms

slant rhyme

American  
[slant rahym] / ˈslænt ˌraɪm /

noun

Prosody.

  1. rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.

slant rhyme British  

noun

  1. prosody another term for half-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

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The game goes too far when Max points out in an email a slant rhyme from “Bounce,” a problematic show known by various titles.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022

“Olive onion pigeon”: Those three trochees, with the repetition of O’s and N’s and the slant rhyme of “onion” and “pigeon,” suggest that I was attuned to the music of language.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021

If you’ve just learned about slant rhyme, you could read poems that exhibit it.

From Time • Sep. 11, 2015

I didn’t know slant rhyme from regular rhyme, but I was suitably impressed.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

“Like Emily Dickinson, I ain’t afraid of slant rhyme / And that’s the end of this verse; emcee’s out on a high.”

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.