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half rhymes

half rhymes is the plural of half rhyme.

Meaning of half rhyme

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.

Questions about half rhymes

What is half rhymes the plural of?
Half rhymes is the plural of half rhyme.

Words near half rhymes in the dictionary

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

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