rhymes

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.

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