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half rhyme

half rhyme noun: a form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.

Noun

half rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural half rhymes)

  1. (uncountable) A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.
  2. (countable) An instance of this form of rhyme.

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Forms of half rhyme

pluralhalf rhymes

Questions about half rhyme

What does half rhyme mean?
Half rhyme means a form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.
What part of speech is half rhyme?
Half rhyme is a noun.
What is the plural of half rhyme?
The plural of half rhyme is half rhymes.

Words near half rhyme in the dictionary

  1. half polluted
  2. half pounder
  3. half pounders
  4. half rest
  5. half rests
  6. half rhyme
  7. half rhymes
  8. half seas over
  9. half shaft
  10. half shafts
  11. half shell

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