rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rīm
ipa: /ɹaɪm/
homophone: rime
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: rhymes
form: rime
form: rhime
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”)
Senses: examples: text: Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.
text: Libels are caſt againſt thee in the ſtreete, / Ballads and rimes made of thy ouerthrovv.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II], signature [D4], recto:
text: Thou, thou, Lyſander, thou haſt giuen her rimes, / And interchang'd loue tokens vvith my childe: […]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], signature A2, verso:
text: VVhen in the Chronicle of vvaſted time, / I ſee diſcriptions of the faireſt vvights, / And beautie making beautifull old rime, / In praiſe of Ladies dead, and louely Knights, […]
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 106”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature G3, recto:
text: I thought, if I could dravv my paines, / Through Rimes vexation, I ſhould them allay, / Griefe brought to numbers cannot be ſo fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verſe.
ref: a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Triple Foole”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC, page 204:
glosses: Rhyming verse (poetic form)
examples: text: Tennyson’s rhymes
glosses: A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
examples: text: Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.
text: Rap makes use of rhymes such as “money … honey” and “nope … dope”.
glosses: A word that rhymes with another.
examples: text: "Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".
glosses: A word that rhymes with another.
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.
raw_tags: in particular
examples: text: The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.
text: [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, no, I vvas not borne vnder a riming plannet, nor i cannot vvooe in feſtiuall termes: […]
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], signature I, verso:
text: 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.
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Consequence or Trayne of Imaginations”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, 1st part (Of Man), page 10:
text: [S]hould not all the world delight to honour this unfortunate and loyal follower of the Muses? May Apollo send him rimes hitherto undreamed of; […]
ref: 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Précy and the Marionettes”, in An Inland Voyage, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, page 232:
glosses: Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: onset
meronyms: nucleus
coda
glosses: The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
examples: text: I heard Drake's new rhyme last night.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular; hip hop; African-American Vernacular; hip hop
glosses: An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
examples: text: His rhymes are all weak.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular; hip hop; always plural; African-American Vernacular; hip hop; always plural
glosses: A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
glosses: Number.
Hyponyms: word: stave-rhyme
word: end rhyme
word: internal rhyme
word: cross rhyme
sense: half rhyme, near rhyme
word: pararhyme
sense: half rhyme, near rhyme
word: slant rhyme
word: full rhyme
word: perfect rhyme
word: exact rhyme
word: true rhyme
Derived terms: 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
imperfect rhyme
male rhyme
masculine rhyme
mind rhyme
nursery rhyme
oblique rhyme
quasi-rhyme
refractory rhyme
rhyme book
rhyme dictionary
rhyme letter
rhyme nor reason
rhyme or reason
rhyme royal
rhyme scheme
riding rhyme
sight rhyme
sprung rhyme
stave rhyme
syllabic rhyme
tail rhyme
visual rhyme
vowel rhyme