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Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

rhyme

Pronunciation:/ɹaɪm//ɹaɪm/

noun

Definitions

  1. Rhyming verse (poetic form)

    Example: Many editors say they don't want stories written in rhyme.

  2. A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.

    Example: Tennyson’s rhymes

  3. A word that rhymes with another.

    Example: Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like "sól ... sunnan".

  4. Rhyming: sameness of sound of part of some words.

    Example: The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.

verb

Definitions

  1. To compose or treat in verse; versify.

  2. (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.

    Example: "Creation" rhymes with "integration" and "station".

  3. Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.

    Example: "India" and "windier" rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.

  4. To number; count; reckon.