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historic rhymes

historic rhymes is the plural of historic rhyme.

Meaning of historic rhyme

Noun

historic rhyme (plural historic rhymes)

  1. Rhymes that were full rhymes in an older stage of the language, but have since become eye rhymes owing to sound changes. Historic rhymes are used by historical linguists to reconstruct the phonology of old languages.

Questions about historic rhymes

What is historic rhymes the plural of?
Historic rhymes is the plural of historic rhyme.

Words near historic rhymes in the dictionary

  1. historic district
  2. historic districts
  3. historic present
  4. historic presents
  5. historic rhyme
  6. historic rhymes
  7. historic site
  8. historic sites
  9. historical
  10. historical cost
  11. historical costs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: historic rhymes (page history and authors); historic 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.

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