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quasi-rhyme

noun

Etymology

From quasi- + rhyme.

  1. derived from *h₂rey-✻ — “to arrange; to count”
  2. derived from *rīm✻ — “number, order, sequence, series, row of identical things”
  3. derived from *srew-✻ — “to flow; a stream”
  4. derived from ῥῠθμός — “measured motion, rhythm; regular, repeating motion, vibration”
  5. derived from rhythmus — “rhythm”
  6. derived from rime
  7. inherited from rim
  8. prefixed as quasi-rhyme — “quasi + rhyme”

Definitions

  1. Somewhat of a rhyme.

    • An oldish parishioner of my own gave me many years ago the quasi rhyme, or its rags and tatters.
    • A similar pattern, mingling elements of alliteration, assonance, quasi-rhyme, and meaningful allusion ingeniously is seen in the following example.
    • Perhaps this quasi-rhyme royal stanza right at the end of a quasi-ballade is a nose-thumbing gesture at Chaucher's French contemporaries and the oppressive formal convention they represent;

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quasi-rhyme. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA