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rhime

rhime is the obsolete spelling of rhyme.

Meaning of rhyme

Noun

rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural rhymes)

  1. Rhyming verse (poetic form).
    • Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.
  2. A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
    • Tennyson’s rhymes
  3. (countable) A word that rhymes with another.
    • Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.
    1. (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.
      • "Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".
  4. (uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
    • The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.
  5. The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.

See all 16 meanings of rhyme

Forms of rhime

Noun
pluralrhimes
Verb
third-person singular presentrhimes
present participlerhiming
past participlerhimed
pastrhimed

Questions about rhime

What is rhime the obsolete spelling of?
Rhime is the obsolete spelling of rhyme.

Words near rhime in the dictionary

  1. rhigolenes
  2. Rhigos
  3. rhim
  4. rhim gazelle
  5. rhim gazelles
  6. rhime
  7. rhimed
  8. rhimes
  9. rhiming
  10. rhin-
  11. rhinacanthin

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