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feminine rhyme

feminine rhyme noun: a disyllabic rhyme that occurs on an unaccented final syllable (a feminine ending).

Noun

feminine rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural feminine rhymes)

  1. A disyllabic rhyme that occurs on an unaccented final syllable (a feminine ending).
    • She even composes a poem in honour of her school — seven stanzas so limp with feminine rhymes as to be almost boneless.2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 557

Forms of feminine rhyme

pluralfeminine rhymes

Questions about feminine rhyme

What does feminine rhyme mean?
Feminine rhyme means a disyllabic rhyme that occurs on an unaccented final syllable (a feminine ending).
What part of speech is feminine rhyme?
Feminine rhyme is a noun.
What is the plural of feminine rhyme?
The plural of feminine rhyme is feminine rhymes.

Words near feminine rhyme in the dictionary

  1. feminine endings
  2. feminine hygiene
  3. feminine of center
  4. feminine product
  5. feminine products
  6. feminine rhyme
  7. feminine rhymes
  8. femininely
  9. feminineness
  10. femininenesses
  11. feminines

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