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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
/ raɪm /
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
- ˈrhymeless, adjective
Other Words From
- rhymer noun
- inter·rhyme verb (used without object) interrhymed interrhyming
- mis·rhymed adjective
- non·rhyme noun
- non·rhymed adjective
- non·rhyming adjective
- outrhyme verb (used with object) outrhymed outrhyming
- un·rhyme verb (used with object) unrhymed unrhyming
- well-rhymed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of rhyme1
Word 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
He talked about sharing poems with kindergartners, and how much kids love it when you tell them to just have fun, make some rhymes, and be silly.
So many of the 140 lyricists who entered, some of them with a dozen or more songs each, offered songs that cleverly echoed the originals, and matched or even improved on the originals’ rhyme scheme.
This addresses matters of length, structure, source music, rhyme and meter — what works best for a contest whose results are mostly read in text.
The older boy would sing a little rhyme about a dog and a hunter in the woods.
“There was really no rhyme or reason to why somebody who was caught with crack cocaine was subject to imprisonment many, many times more severe than people who were found with soft cocaine,” says Virani.
One song interweaves adult themes into nursery rhyme cadence.
So too, without the benefit of a rhyme, is "fix it, don't repeal it."
Like, “Yeah this will be crazy to rhyme on alright lets loop it up.”
Bruni told NPR last summer that she changed the name because it was easier to rhyme.
While it may “rhyme” a bit, Syria has its own particular dynamics.
I don't exactly see how I could have been, considering I never made a rhyme in my life!
The sixth line is in these words: “Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme.”
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!
The most amusing point in it is, that the author seriously intended the lines to rhyme.
We passed through Banbury, whose cross, famous in nursery rhyme, is only modern.
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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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