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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
/ ɪ /
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
- ˈ⳾, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- ⳾İ noun
- t·⳾ verb (used without object) interrhymed interrhyming
- ·⳾ adjective
- ԴDz·⳾ noun
- ԴDz·⳾ adjective
- ԴDz·⳾iԲ adjective
- dzܳr⳾ verb (used with object) outrhymed outrhyming
- ܲ·⳾ verb (used with object) unrhymed unrhyming
- ɱ-⳾ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of rhyme1
yvlog 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's the one who coined “Gilded Age” and he's the one who said, “History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.”
Many public artworks in Dublin are popularly referred to by rhyming nicknames and for years, the Molly Malone statue was known as "the tart with the cart".
Irvine said it’s created to rhyme with the Mansion, particularly in its color scheme, utilizing the same tones of green and white, only with different places of emphasis.
Zack Baun’s last name rhymes with yawn, and that was pretty much the reaction a year ago when the Philadelphia Eagles signed him as a free agent out of New Orleans.
He teased, cajoled and vexed his listeners, daring them to explore the "devilish" contours of his mind, as he sang rash rhymes about parties, drugs and "seducing" women.
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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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