slant rhyme

[ slant-rahym ]

/ ˈslænt ˌraɪm /

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Definition of slant rhyme

noun Prosody.

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

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Also called half rhyme [haf-rahym], /ˈhæf ˌraɪm/, im·per·fect rhyme [im-pur fikt rahym], /ˈɪmˌpɜr fɪkt ˌraɪm/, near rhyme [neer-rahym], /ˈnɪər ˌraɪm/, o·blique rhyme [oh-bleek-rahym, uh-bleek], /oʊˈblik ˌraɪm, əˈblik/, off rhyme [awf-rahym, of] /ˈɔf ˌraɪm, ɒf/ .

Words nearby slant rhyme

slanter, slant-eyed, slant front, slant height, slant-in, slant rhyme, slant-top, slantwise, slap, slap-bang, slap bass

How to use slant rhyme in a sentence

Meanwhile, big dollar advertising campaigns have taken an explicit rainbow-hued slant.
Corporations Are No Longer Silent on LGBT Issues||December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One song interweaves adult themes into nursery rhyme cadence.
From Church of Christ to Pansexual Rapper|Tyler Gillespie|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So too, without the benefit of a rhyme, is "fix it, don't repeal it."
Democrats Must Run on Obamacare in November|Robert Shrum|March 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Like, “Yeah this will be crazy to rhyme on alright lets loop it up.”
Action Bronson Isn’t Your Typical Rapper|Sara Sayed|January 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Bruni told NPR last summer that she changed the name because it was easier to rhyme.
The Gunslinger of Rue Miromesnil|Christopher Dickey|December 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I don't exactly see how I could have been, considering I never made a rhyme in my life!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
The sixth line is in these words: “Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme.”
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
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. Drinkwater
The most amusing point in it is, that the author seriously intended the lines to rhyme.
Notes and Queries, Number 177, March 19, 1853|Various
He had the innate slant of mind that properly belongs to a moderator of mass meetings called to aggravate a crisis.
The Eve of the Revolution|Carl Becker

British Dictionary definitions for slant rhyme

slant rhyme

noun

prosody another term for half-rhyme

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