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rhyme

noun
/ɹaɪm/US

Etymology

From 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: * from Latin rhythmus (“rhythm”), from Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós, “measured motion, rhythm; regular, repeating motion, vibration”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow; a stream”); or * borrowed from Frankish *rīm (“number, order, sequence, series, row of identical things”) (whence Old English rīm (“number, enumeration, series”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“to arrange; to count”) and *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix; to slot”). Cognates * Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number”) * Dutch rijm (“rhyme”) * Middle Low German rīm (“rhyme”) * Old Frisian rīm (“number, amount, tale”) * Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”) (modern German Reim (“rhyme”)) * Old Irish rīm (“number”) * Old Norse rím (“calculation, calendar”) (Icelandic rím (“rhyme”), Norwegian rim (“rhyme”), Swedish rim (“rhyme”)) * Welsh rhif (“number”)

  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

Definitions

  1. Rhyming verse (poetic form)

    • Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.
    • Libels are caſt againſt thee in the ſtreete, / Ballads and rimes made of thy ouerthrovv.
    • Thou, thou, Lyſander, thou haſt giuen her rimes, / And interchang'd loue tokens vvith my childe: […]

  2. A thought expressed in verse

    A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.

    • Tennyson’s rhymes

  3. 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”.
  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. Rhyming

      Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.

      • The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.
      • Sometimes a man knovvs a place determinate, vvithin the compaſſe vvhereof he is to ſeek: […] as a man ſhould run over the Alphabet, to ſtart a rime.

    2. The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.

    3. An instance of rapping

      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.

    4. A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.

      • His rhymes are all weak.

    5. Number.

    6. To compose or treat in verse

      To compose or treat in verse; versify.

      • Ha, ha, hovv vildely doth this Cynicke rime?
      • How Panurge and the rest rim'd with Poetick Fury [chapter title]
      • There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, / Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.

    7. To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation…

      To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.

      • Now she's tainted by the syringe Try to rhyme a word with orange

    8. Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed…

      Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.

      • Creation rhymes with integration and station.
      • India and windier rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.

    9. To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end…

      To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.

      • Mug and rug rhyme.

    10. To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the…

      To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.

      • I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.

    11. To somewhat resemble or correspond with.

      • In addition, the look rhymes with but inverts the meaning of the first silent look he gets instead of words when he asks Lucien in the photo shop if he remembers him, and Lucien shrugs his shoulders in denial.

    12. To number

      To number; count; reckon.

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Derived

berhyme, broken rhyme, consonant rhyme, counting rhyme, eye rhyme, female rhyme, feminine rhyme, forced rhyme, head rhyme, he who said the rhyme did the crime, historic rhyme, holorhyme, imperfect rhyme, interrhyme, male rhyme, masculine rhyme, mind rhyme, misrhyme, monorhyme, nursery rhyme, oblique rhyme, outrhyme, quasi-rhyme, refractory rhyme, rhymability, rhymable, rhyme book, rhyme dictionary, rhymefest, rhymeless, rhymelet, rhyme letter, rhymelike, rhymemaker, rhymemaking, rhyme nor reason, rhyme or reason, rhymeprose, rhymer, rhyme royal · +22 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rhyme. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at rhyme. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at rhyme

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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