RHYME

Rhyme

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, most often at the end of lines in poems and songs. The word "rhyme" may also be used as a pars pro toto to refer to a short poem, such as a rhyming couplet or other brief rhyming poem such as nursery rhymes.

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rhyme

Noun

  1. Number.
  2. Rhyming verse (poetic form)
    Many editors say they don't want stories written in rhyme.
  3. A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
    Tennyson’s rhymes
  4. A word that rhymes with another.
    Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like "sol ... sunnan".
    Rap makes use of rhymes such as "money ... honey" and "nope ... dope".
  1. A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
    "Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".
  1. Rhyming: sameness of sound of part of some words.
    The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.
  2. Rhyming verse (poetic form).
  3. rime

Verb

  1. To number; count; reckon.
  2. To compose or treat in verse; versify.
  3. Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
    "Creation" rhymes with "integration" and "station".
  4. Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
    "Mug" and "rug" rhyme.
    "India" and "windier" rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.
  5. To put words together so that they rhyme.
    I rewrote it to make it rhyme.


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