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rhyme
[ rahym ]
noun
- 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.
verb (used with object)
- 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.
verb (used without object)
- 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.
rhyme
/ ɪ /
noun
- 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 reasonsense, logic, or meaning
this proposal has no rhyme or reason
verb
- 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
rhyme
- A similarity of sound between words, such as moon , spoon , croon , tune , and June . Rhyme is often employed in verse .
Derived Forms
- ˈ⳾, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ⳾İ noun
- t·⳾ verb (used without object) interrhymed interrhyming
- ·⳾ adjective
- ԴDz·⳾ noun
- ԴDz·⳾ adjective
- ԴDz·⳾iԲ adjective
- dzܳr⳾ verb (used with object) outrhymed outrhyming
- ܲ·⳾ verb (used with object) unrhymed unrhyming
- ɱ-⳾ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of rhyme1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of rhyme1
Idioms and Phrases
- rhyme or reason, logic, sense, or plan:
There was no rhyme or reason for what they did.
Example Sentences
The nursery rhyme that goes “Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children are gone” cruelly repeated in my head.
“Austin” is actually about Nashville, but Nashville had some s— rhymes, so we changed it to Austin.
“I feel like of the two of us, fate flipped a coin and I ended up being allowed to survive my study abroad. And she didn't. There's no rhyme or reason for that.”
When they accepted the award, Montenegro named a dozen Venezuelan musicians in a rhymed speech and urged his countrymen to keep their heads up.
They say their new sound feels “different, but the same,” pointing out an “updated beat game and elevated rhyme schemes.”
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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.
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