rhyme

UK /ɹaɪm/ US /ɹaɪm/
noun 5verb 5

Definitions

noun

1

Rhyming verse (poetic form)

Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.

Libels are caſt againſt thee in the ſtreete, / Ballads and rimes made of thy ouerthrovv.

2

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

Tennyson’s rhymes

3

A word that rhymes with another.

Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.

Rap makes use of rhymes such as “money … honey” and “nope … dope”.

4

A word that rhymes with another.

"Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".

5

Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.

The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.

[M]ary I cannot ſhevv it in rime, I haue tried, I can finde out no rime to Ladie, but babie, an innocent rime: for ſcorne, horne, a hard rime: for ſchoole foole, a babling rime: very ominous endings, no, I vvas not borne vnder a riming plannet, nor i cannot vvooe in feſtiuall termes: […]

verb

1

To compose or treat in verse; versify.

Ha, ha, hovv vildely doth this Cynicke rime?

How Panurge and the rest rim'd with Poetick Fury [chapter title]

2

To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.

Now she's tainted by the syringe Try to rhyme a word with orange

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.

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

4

To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.

Mug and rug rhyme.

5

To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.

I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.

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