Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.
- noun A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.
- noun Poetry or verse of this kind.
- noun A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold.
- intransitive verb To form a rhyme.
- intransitive verb To compose rhymes or verse.
- intransitive verb To make use of rhymes in composing verse.
- intransitive verb To put into rhyme or compose with rhymes.
- intransitive verb To use (a word or words) as a rhyme.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See
rime , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To put into rhyme.
- transitive verb To influence by rhyme.
- intransitive verb To make rhymes, or verses.
- intransitive verb To accord in rhyme or sound.
- noun An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.
- noun (Pros.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any.
- noun Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.
- noun A word answering in sound to another word.
- noun See under
Female . - noun See under
Male . - noun sound or sense.
- noun (Pros.) a stanza of seven decasyllabic verses, of which the first and third, the second, fourth, and fifth, and the sixth and seventh rhyme.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Number . - noun countable, uncountable Rhyming
verse (poetic form) - noun A thought expressed in
verse ; averse ; apoem ; atale told in verse. - noun countable A word that rhymes with another.
- noun uncountable Rhyming: sameness of sound of part of some words.
- noun countable, uncountable Rhyming
verse (poetic form). - noun linguistics
rime - verb transitive, obsolete To
number ;count ;reckon . - verb transitive To
compose ortreat inverse ;versify . - verb transitive, followed by with Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- verb reciprocal Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
- verb transitive To put words together so that they rhyme.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
- noun correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
- noun a piece of poetry
- verb compose rhymes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Verse without rhyme, is a body without a soul, (for the chief life consisteth in the rhyme) or a bell without a clapper; which, in strictness, is no bell, as being neither of use nor delight.
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Why, for instance, Riordan has his characters speak in rhyme is never satisfactorily revealed.
Solas Nua's first musical, the loopy 'Improbable Frequency' Peter Marks 2010
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I appreciate the implication that these small couplets are the only inoculation against certain death that kids have in their defensive arsenal -- and that the rhyme is a lesson hard-learned, acquired from the corpses of generations.
Dead Silence 2007
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For example, Crambo is of extraordinary use to good rhyming, and rhyming is what I have ever accounted the very essential of a good poet: And in that notion I am not singular; for the aforesaid Sir Philip Sidney has declared, That the chief life of modern versifying, consisteth in the like sounding of words, which we call rhyme, which is an authority, either without exception, or above any reply.
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Shangil Tobaya "mean" flip a brick, "and the popular rhyme translates as" flip a brick, you will find gold. "
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As for writing poetry, I ask my poor students to experiment with a variety of poetic techniques for creating music with words, and that includes writing in rhyme and meter.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with Dashka Slater, part 2 2009
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I think the best thing for me about this catchy rhyme is that now when I get frustrated at airports (which always happens) I can sing and everything will at least seem all right for those few seconds!
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I find a rhyme is rather lonely without a picture.
J.otto Seibold: Mother Goose Meet 'Other Goose': 7 Classic Nursery Rhymes Re-Imagined (PHOTOS) J.otto Seibold 2010
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I therefore look forward allready to Spring, And if that invalluable Lady named Hope had not allready been throng'd and pesterd, nay allmost suffocated with addresses and Sonnets I would talk over my feelings in rhyme to her.
Letter 246 2009
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I find a rhyme is rather lonely without a picture.
J.otto Seibold: Mother Goose Meet 'Other Goose': 7 Classic Nursery Rhymes Re-Imagined (PHOTOS) J.otto Seibold 2010
yarb commented on the word rhyme
Does anyone know what the most common rhyme in Engish is? I.e. which word-end-sound (there must be a technical term) ends most words?
(Excluding suffix-style endings like "-ation" and "-ology).
April 1, 2008
john commented on the word rhyme
It's gotta be "ucket." As in, "There once was a man from Nantucket..."
April 1, 2008
reesetee commented on the word rhyme
Heehee. Yarb, is this along the lines of what you're looking for?
April 1, 2008
gangerh commented on the word rhyme
No, yarb, but I suspect the most uncommon word-end-sound is probably '-ongry'!
April 1, 2008
yarb commented on the word rhyme
Thanks rt. That's what I mean - phonograms - but someone must have some numbers on this!
April 1, 2008
reesetee commented on the word rhyme
I saw this article cited in several places, but I think it's just for monosyllabic words: Fry, Edward. "The Most Common Phonograms." The Reading Teacher, Vol. 51, No. 7, April, 1998. Also, p. 33 of this title on Google Books has a shorter frequency chart based on Fry.
April 1, 2008
bilby commented on the word rhyme
My rhymes no longer shall stand arrayed
Like Prussian soldiers on parade
That march,
Stiff as starch,
Foot to foot,
Boot to boot,
Blade to blade,
Button to button,
Cheeks and chops and chins like mutton.
- Robert Graves, 'Free Verse'.
September 8, 2009