rhyme
Rhyming verseRhyming verse (poetic form).
» I understand you're looking for a record album of nursery rhymes.
Meaning
9 senses(countable, uncountable)Rhyming verse (poetic form).
Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.
(countable, uncountable)A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
Tennyson’s rhymes
Reim
стихотворе́ниеstixotvorénije, стихstix
віршvirš
(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”.
Reim
ри́фмаrífma
ри́маrýma
A word that rhymes with another.
(countable)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 letters or sounds of part of some words.
The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.
Reim
ри́фмаrífma
(countable, uncountable)The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
Silbenreim
(countable, informal, uncountable)An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
I heard Drake's new rhyme last night.
(broadly, countable, informal, uncountable)A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
His rhymes are all weak.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Number.
- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
- a piece of poetry
Examples
56 sentencesI understand you're looking for a record album of nursery rhymes.
What's your favorite nursery rhyme?
deWas ist dein Lieblingskinderlied? — Yorwba
History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Історія не повторюється, але вона добре римується. — deniko
deGeschichte wiederholt sich nicht, aber sie reimt sich. — mks
'Teng' and 'cheng' are rhyming words.
Nursery rhymes are deliberately inconsistent texts.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English rim, rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowelFrom Middle English rim, rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; measure, meter, rhythm; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”), from Anglo-Norman rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”) (modern French rime); further etymology uncertain, possibly either:
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Forms
plural: rhymesSynonyms
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