identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind.
verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines.
a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence.
verse (def. 4).
verb (used with object),rhymed,rhym·ing.
to treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose.
to compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes.
to use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes.
verb (used without object),rhymed,rhym·ing.
to make rhyme or verse; versify.
to use rhyme in writing verse.
to form a rhyme, as one word or line with another: a word that rhymes with orange.
to be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse: poetry that rhymes.
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Idioms for rhyme
rhyme or reason, logic, sense, or plan: There was no rhyme or reason for what they did.
Sometimes rime .
Origin of rhyme
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English rime, from Old French, derivative of rimer “to rhyme,” from unattested Gallo-Romance rimāre “to put in a row,” ultimately derived from Old High German rīm “series, row”; probably not connected with Latin rhythmus “rhythm,” although current spelling (from about 1600) is apparently by association with this word
historical usage of rhyme
The spelling and etymology of the noun rhyme fall between two stools. Its Middle English forms rym (in The Canterbury Tales, from around 1387), ryym (in Wycliffe’s Bible ), and rime derive from Anglo-French, Old French, and Middle French rime, ryme. Note the absence of h in all these spellings. The source of the French rime is from an unrecorded Gallo-Romance verb rimāre “to set in a row,” a derivative of the Germanic noun rīm “number, series,” and possibly developing the senses “series of rhymed syllables” and “rhymed verse.” The English spelling rhyme dates from around 1600 and shows the influence of the unrelated Latin rhetorical term rhythmus “a patterned sequence of sounds; measured flow of words or phrases in prose,” a borrowing from Greek rhythmós, which has the same meanings.
OTHER WORDS FROM rhyme
rhymer,nounin·ter·rhyme,verb (used without object),in·ter·rhymed,in·ter·rhym·ing.mis·rhymed,adjectivenon·rhyme,noun
non·rhymed,adjectivenon·rhym·ing,adjectiveoutrhyme,verb (used with object),out·rhymed,out·rhym·ing.un·rhyme,verb (used with object),un·rhymed,un·rhym·ing.well-rhymed,adjective
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH rhyme
rhyme , rhythm
Words nearby rhyme
rhumba, rhumbatron, rhumb line, rhumb sailing, rhus, rhyme, rhyme or reason, no, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme, rhymester, rhyming slang
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