Rhyme
WordNet
noun
(1) A piece of poetry
(2) Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
verb
(3) Compose rhymes
(4) Be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
"Hat and cat rhyme"
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Etymology
ryme, rime, from rīm "number, enumeration, series". Akin to rīm "series, row, number" . Meaning influenced in by rime "rhyme" from the same source.
Noun
- Verse, poetry.
- nursery rhyme
- The fact of rhyming.
- A word that rhymes with another.
- "Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".
Verb
- Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- "Creation" rhymes with "integration".
- 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.
- To put words together so that they rhyme.
- I rewrote it to make it rhyme.