rhyme
Plural: rhymes
Noun
- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
- a piece of poetry
- Rhyming verse (poetic form)
- A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
- A word that rhymes with another.
- A word that rhymes with another.
- 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.
- Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
- The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
- An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
- A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
- Number.
Verb
Verb Forms: rhymed, rhyming, rhymes
- To create words with similar sounds, especially at the end.
- compose rhymes
- be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
- "hat and cat rhyme"
- To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
- Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
- To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.
- To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
- To number; count; reckon.
Examples
- "Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".
- Creation rhymes with integration and station.
- His plays didn’t rhyme with his opponent’s strategy, leading to a clash of tactics.
- His rhymes are all weak.
- I heard Drake's new rhyme last night.
- I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.
- India and windier rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.
- Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.
- Mug and rug rhyme.
- Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.
- Rap makes use of rhymes such as “money … honey” and “nope … dope”.
- Tennyson’s rhymes
- The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English rim, rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; measure, meter, rhythm; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”), from Anglo-Norman rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”) (modern French rime); further etymology uncertain, possibly either:
* from Latin rhythmus (“rhythm”), from Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós, “measured motion, rhythm; regular, repeating motion, vibration”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow; a stream”); or
* borrowed from Frankish *rīm (“number, order, sequence, series, row of identical things”) (whence Old English rīm (“number, enumeration, series”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“to arrange; to count”) and *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix; to slot”).
Cognates
* Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number”)
* Dutch rijm (“rhyme”)
* Middle Low German rīm (“rhyme”)
* Old Frisian rīm (“number, amount, tale”)
* Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”) (modern German Reim (“rhyme”))
* Old Irish rīm (“number”)
* Old Norse rím (“calculation, calendar”) (Icelandic rím (“rhyme”), Norwegian rim (“rhyme”), Swedish rim (“rhyme”))
* Welsh rhif (“number”)
Scrabble Score: 13
rhyme: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrhyme: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rhyme: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary