Word.ws English Dictionary

end-rhyme

end-rhyme is the alternative form of end rhyme.

Meaning of end rhyme

Noun

end rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural end rhymes)

  1. (often, uncountable) The form of rhyme (rhyming) which uses sameness of sound of the last words of lines from the vowels in their stressed syllables to their ends.
  2. (countable) 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.
    • In this poem, the words defense/tense, know/go, and Spain/Maine are end-rhymes.1993, Elements of Literature, page 875

Forms of end-rhyme

pluralend-rhymes

Questions about end-rhyme

What is end-rhyme the alternative form of?
End-rhyme is the alternative form of end rhyme.

Words near end-rhyme in the dictionary

  1. end-organ
  2. end-organs
  3. End-Permian Extinction
  4. end-product
  5. end-products
  6. end-rhyme
  7. end-scraper
  8. end-scrapers
  9. end-table
  10. end-tables
  11. end-tidal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: end-rhyme (page history and authors); end rhyme (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “end-rhyme.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/end-rhyme. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.