rhyme
UK/ɹaɪm/
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Australia/ɹɑem/
rhyme noun: rhyming verse (poetic form).
Noun
rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural rhymes)
- Rhyming verse (poetic form).
- Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.
- Libels are caſt againſt thee in the ſtreete, / Ballads and rimes made of thy ouerthrovv.1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act...
- A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
- Tennyson’s rhymes
- A word that rhymes with another.
- Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.
- Rap makes use of rhymes such as “money … honey” and “nope … dope”.
- Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
- The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.
- [M]ary I cannot ſhevv it in rime, I haue tried, I can finde out no rime to Ladie, but babie, an innocent rime: for ſcorne, horne, a hard rime: for ſchoole foole, a babling rime: very ominous endings, no, I vvas not borne vnder a riming plannet, nor i cannot vvooe in feſtiuall termes: […]1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V...
- The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
- An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
- I heard Drake's new rhyme last night.
- A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
- His rhymes are all weak.
- Number.
Verb
rhyme (third-person singular simple present rhymes, present participle rhyming, simple past and past participle rhymed)
- To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- Ha, ha, hovv vildely doth this Cynicke rime?1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- How Panurge and the rest rim'd with Poetick Fury [chapter title]1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], chapter XLVII, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of...
- To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
- Now she's tainted by the syringe
Try to rhyme a word with orange2009, Julian Casablancas, “Long Island Blues”, in Phrazes for the Young, Luxury Edition Deluxe Set bonus disc
- Now she's tainted by the syringe
- Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- Creation rhymes with integration and station.
- India and windier rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.
- To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
- Mug and rug rhyme.
- To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.
- I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.
- To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
- In addition, the look rhymes with but inverts the meaning of the first silent look he gets instead of words when he asks Lucien in the photo shop if he remembers him, and Lucien shrugs his shoulders in denial.2010, Tony Pipolo, Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film
- To number; count; reckon.
rhyme meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
rhyme in Hindi
- word that rhymes with another
- तुक tuk
rhyme in Tamil
- word that rhymes with another
- எதுகை etukai, ஒத்திசை otticai
rhyme in Urdu
- verse, poetry
- قافِیَہ qāfiya
- word that rhymes with another
- قافِیَہ qāfiya
rhyme in Bengali
- to rhyme
- মেলা mela
More languagesFewer languages
- rhyme in Telugu
- అంత్యనియమము antyaniyamamu
- rhyme in Malayalam
- പ്രാസം, തുല്യോച്ചാരണപദം, അനുപ്രാസം
- rhyme in Kannada
- ಕೊನೆಯುಲಿ ಸಾಟಿ, ಅಂತ್ಯಪ್ರಾಸ, ಪ್ರಾಸವುಳ್ಳ ಪಾದ ಯಾ ಪದ್ಯಪಂಕ್ತಿ, ಪ್ರಾಸವಾಗು
- rhyme in Sinhala
- රයිම්
- rhyme in Arabic
- قَصِيدَة qaṣīda, أُسْجُوعَة ʔusjūʕa, قَافِيَة qāfiya, سَجْع sajʕ
- rhyme in Malay
- rima
- rhyme in Thai
- กลอน glɔɔn, กาพย์ gàap, สัมผัส sǎm-pàt
- rhyme in Vietnamese
- vần
- rhyme in Myanmar
- ကာရန် karan
Examples of rhyme in a sentence
- Shakespeare often used volte-faces in the rhyming couplets at the end of his sonnets.
- Prices vary considerably from one town to another with no apparent rhyme or reason.
- He would often fly into an unexpected rage without rhyme or reason.
Forms of rhyme
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | rhymes |
| alternative form (archaic) | rime |
| alternative form (obsolete) | rhime |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | rhymes |
| present participle | rhyming |
| past participle | rhymed |
| past | rhymed |
Origin of rhyme
From Middle English rim, rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; measure, meter, rhythm; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”), from Anglo-Norman rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”) (modern French rime); further etymology uncertain, possibly either: * from Latin rhythmus (“rhythm”), from Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós, “measured motion, rhythm; regular, repeating motion, vibration”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow; a stream”); or * borrowed from Frankish *rīm (“number, order, sequence, series, row of identical things”) (whence Old English rīm (“number, enumeration, series”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“to arrange; to count”) and *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix; to slot”). Cognates * Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number”) * Dutch rijm (“rhyme”) * Middle Low German rīm (“rhyme”) * Old Frisian rīm (“number, amount, tale”) * Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”) (modern German Reim (“rhyme”)) * Old Irish rīm (“number”) * Old Norse rím (“calculation, calendar”)...
From Middle English rimen, rymen, rim, rime (“to recite or write verse; to sing songs; to tell a story in verse; to fit into verse; (figurative) to agree, make sense”), from Anglo-Norman rimer, Middle French rimer, and Old French rimer (“to rhyme (a word) with another word; to write verse”) (modern French rimer), Old French rime, ryme (noun): see etymology 1. Cognates * Catalan rimar * Icelandic ríma * Italian rimar * Middle Dutch rīmen (modern Dutch rijmen) * Middle High German rīmen (modern German reimen) * Middle Low German rīmen * Old Danish rime (modern Danish rime) * Old Occitan rimar (“to rhyme (a word) with another word; to write verse”) * Old Swedish rima (modern Swedish rima) * Portuguese rimar * Spanish rimar
Words formed from rhyme
- berhyme
- broken rhyme
- consonant rhyme
- counting rhyme
- eye rhyme
- female rhyme
- feminine rhyme
- forced rhyme
- head rhyme
- he who said the rhyme did the crime
- historic rhyme
- holorhyme
- imperfect rhyme
- interrhyme
- male rhyme
- masculine rhyme
- mind rhyme
- misrhyme
- monorhyme
- nursery rhyme
- oblique rhyme
- outrhyme
- quasi-rhyme
- refractory rhyme
- rhymability
- rhymable
- rhyme book
- rhyme dictionary
- rhymefest
- rhymeless
- rhymelet
- rhyme letter
- rhymelike
- rhymemaker
- rhymemaking
- rhyme nor reason
- rhyme or reason
- rhymeprose
- rhymer
- rhyme royal
- rhymery
- rhyme scheme
- rhymester
- rhyme-tag
- rhymewise
- rhymey
- rhymic
- rhymical
- rhymist
- riding rhyme
- sight rhyme
- sprung rhyme
- stave rhyme
- syllabic rhyme
- tail rhyme
- unrhyme
- visual rhyme
- vowel rhyme
- rhyme off
- rhyme out
Phrases with rhyme
- rhyme up
- end rhyme
- full rhyme
- half rhyme
- near rhyme
- true rhyme
- exact rhyme
- rhyme books
- slant rhyme
- perfect rhyme
- rhyme letters
- rhyme schemes
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with rhyme
31 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about rhyme
- What does rhyme mean?
- Rhyme means rhyming verse (poetic form).
- What is rhyme in Hindi?
- Rhyme in Hindi is तुक (tuk). See Rhyme meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is rhyme?
- Rhyme can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce rhyme?
- Rhyme is pronounced /ɹaɪm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of rhyme?
- The plural of rhyme is rhymes.
Words near rhyme in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rhyme (page history and authors); মেলা (Bengali) (page history and authors); అంత్యనియమము (Telugu) (page history and authors); rhyme (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rhyme (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rhyme (Sinhala Wiktionary) (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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