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rhyme
- See Wiktionary:Rhymes for a list of Rhymes pages in Wiktionary
English
Alternative forms
- rime
- rhime (obsolete)
Etymology
- The noun derives from Middle English ryme, rime (“number, rhyme, verse”), from a merger of Old English r?m (“number”) and Old French rime, ryme (“rhyme”). Old French rime is of uncertain origin: it may represent Latin rhythmus (“rhythm”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (rhuthmós, “measure, rhythm”); or Frankish *r?m (“number, series, count”), from Proto-Germanic *r?m? (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?rey- (“to regulate, count”), cognate with Old English r?m above; or a conflation of the two. Cognates of Old English r?m include Old Frisian r?m (“number, amount, tale”), Old High German r?m (“series, row, number”), Old Norse rím (“calculation, calendar”), Old Irish r?m (“number”), Welsh rhif (“number”), Ancient Greek ??????? (arithmós, “number”). Middle Low German r?m (“rhyme”), Dutch rijm (“rhyme”), German Reim (“rhyme”), Norwegian rim (“rhyme”), Swedish rim (“rhyme”), Icelandic rím (“rhyme”) are from Old French.
- The verb derives from Middle English rymen, rimen, from Old English r?man (“to count, enumerate, number”), from Proto-Germanic *r?man?.
- The spelling has been influenced by an assumed relationship with rhythm. Whether this relationship exists is uncertain (as stated above).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: r?m, IPA(key): /?a?m/
- Rhymes: -a?m
- Homophone: rime
Noun
rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural rhymes)
- (countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)
- Many editors say they don't want stories written in rhyme.
- A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
- Tennyson’s rhymes
- (countable) 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".
- (countable, in particular) 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".
- (uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of sound of part of some words.
- The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.
- (linguistics) rime
- (obsolete) Number.
Hyponyms
- stave-rhyme, end rhyme
- internal rhyme, cross rhyme
- half rhyme, near rhyme:
- pararhyme, slant rhyme
- full rhyme, perfect rhyme, exact rhyme, true rhyme
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
rhyme (third-person singular simple present rhymes, present participle rhyming, simple past and past participle rhymed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- 1742, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, book 4, lines 101-102:
- There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side,
- Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.
- 1742, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, book 4, lines 101-102:
- (intransitive, followed by with) 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".
- (reciprocal) Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
- "Mug" and "rug" rhyme.
- "India" and "windier" rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.
- I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.
- (transitive, obsolete) To number; count; reckon.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “rhyme”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- Hymer, Myhre
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Noun
rhyme
- Alternative form of reem
rhyme From the web:
- what rhymes with
- what rhymes with orange
- what rhymes with me
- what rhymes with you
- what rhymes with time
- what rhymes with love
- what rhymes with purple
- what rhymes with life
rhymeless
English
Etymology
rhyme +? -less
Adjective
rhymeless (not comparable)
- Without rhymes.
- a rhymeless poem
- (linguistics) Not rhymable; having no perfect rhymes.
- "Orange" is widely considered to be a rhymeless word.
- (archaic) Senseless; without rhyme or reason.
Related terms
- rhyme
- rhymelessness
- rhymable/rhymeable
- rhymability/rhymeability
rhymeless From the web:
- what is rhymeless poem
- what does rhymeless mean
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