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Definition of Rhyme

1. Verb. Compose rhymes.

2. Noun. Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds).

3. Verb. Be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable. "Hat and cat rhyme"

4. Noun. A piece of poetry.

Definition of Rhyme

1. n. An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.

2. v. i. To make rhymes, or verses.

3. v. t. To put into rhyme.

Definition of Rhyme

1. Noun. (obsolete) Number. ¹

2. Noun. (countable uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form) ¹

3. Noun. A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse. ¹

4. Noun. A word that rhymes with another. ¹

5. Noun. Rhyming: sameness of sound of part of some words. ¹

6. Noun. (countable uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form). ¹

7. Noun. (linguistics) '''rime''' ¹

8. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To number; count; reckon. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify. ¹

10. Verb. (transitive followed by '''with''') Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. ¹

11. Verb. (context: reciprocal) Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. ¹

12. Verb. (transitive) To put words together so that they rhyme. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rhyme

1. to compose verse with corresponding terminal sounds [v RHYMED, RHYMING, RHYMES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhyme

rhumbas rhumbline rhumblines rhumbs rhupunt rhus rhus dermatitis rhuses rhusma rhusmas

rhy rhykenologist rhykenologists rhyku rhymable rhyme (current term) rhyme off rhyme or reason rhyme royal rhyme scheme

rhyme schemes rhymed rhymeless rhymelessness rhymelike rhymer rhymeries rhymers rhymery rhymes

Literary usage of Rhyme

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The triple rhyme is used, in English, principally in verse of a conversational or comic or facetious nature. rhymes of more than three syllables are ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The triple rhyme is used, in English, principally in verse of a conversational or comic or facetious nature. rhymes of more than three syllables are ..."

3. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Ebenezer Charlton Black (1906)
"rhyme When compared with Shakespeare's earlier plays, The Merchant of Venice shows a marked decrease in the use of rhyme in the dialogue. ..."

4. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"You have only to take one of Campion's own poems (written mostly after the Observations) in natural rhyme, and the difference will be seen at once. ..."

5. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1906)
"rhyme When compared with Shakespeare's earlier plays, The Merchant of Venice shows a marked decrease in the use of rhyme in the dialogue. ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"While maintaining the structure of sequences of the first epoch, these sequences add a greater or less degree of the element of rhyme (although not yet pure ..."

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