rhyme or (archaic) rime /rīm/

1. In two or more words, identity of sound from the last stressed vowel to the end, the consonant or consonant group preceding not being the same in both or all cases
2. Extended to other correspondences in sound, such as head-rhyme or alliteration, to inexact correspondences, such as eye-rhyme, and to variations such as French, rich rhyme, or rime riche (where the consonants immediately preceding the stressed vowel are alike), and identical rhyme (where like-sounding words of different meaning are used)
3. A word or group of words agreeing in this way with another
4. Versification, verses, a poem or a short piece of verse, in which this correspondence occurs at the ends of lines (or within the lines, in internal rhyme)
5. A jingle

1. To be in rhyme
2. To correspond in sound
3. To make or find a rhyme or rhymes
4. To harmonize
5. To chime
6. To make rhymes or verses

1. To put into rhyme
2. To compose in rhyme
3. To use or treat as a rhyme

rhymed or (archaic) rimed /rīmd/ adjective

In rhyme

rhymeˈless adjective

rhyˈmer or (archaic) riˈmer noun

1. A user of rhyme
2. A poet
3. An inferior poet
4. A minstrel

rhymeˈster noun

1. A poetaster
2. A would-be poet

rhymˈist noun

A versifier

rhyme letter noun

The alliterating letter

rhyme royal noun

(appar a commendatory name) a seven-line stanza borrowed by Chaucer from the French, its lines rhyming in the pattern ababbcc

rhyme scheme noun

The pattern of rhymes in a stanza, etc

rhyme word noun

A word used as a rhyme

rhyming slang noun

A form of slang in which a word is replaced by another word, or part or all of a phrase, which rhymes with it

identical rhyme and rich rhyme see n above.

rhyme or reason

Reasonable or sensible purpose or explanation

rhyme to death

1. To kill by incantations (as rats were supposed to be killed in Ireland)
2. To pester with rhymes

• leap
• leap day
• leap days
• leaped
• leaper
• leaperous
• leapers
• leapfrog
• leapfrogged
• leapfrogging
• leapfrogs
• leaping
• leaping-house
• leaping-houses
• leaping-time
• leaping-times
• leap in the dark
• leap on the bandwagon
• leaporous
• leaprous
• leaps
• leap second
• leap seconds
• leapt
• leap year