/ɹaɪm/
- countable, uncountableRhyming 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: […]”
- countable, uncountableA thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
- countableA 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”.”
- countableA 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".”
- uncountableRhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
“The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.”
“[M]ary I cannot ſhevv it in rime, I haue tried, I can finde out no rime to Ladie, but babie, an innocent rime: for ſcorne, horne, a hard rime: for ſchoole foole, a babling rime: very ominous endings, ”
“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.”
- countable, uncountableThe second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
- countable, informal, uncountableAn 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, uncountableA rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
“His rhymes are all weak.”
- countable, obsolete, uncountableNumber.
- ambitransitiveTo 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.”
- transitiveTo 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”
- intransitiveOf 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.”
- reciprocalTo be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
- intransitive, usuallyTo 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.”
- figuratively, intransitiveTo 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 i”
- obsolete, transitiveTo number; count; reckon.
Formsrhymes(plural) · rime(alternative) · rhime(alternative) · rhymes(present, singular, third-person) · rhyming(participle, present) · rhymed(participle, past) · rhymed(past)