rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rīm
ipa: /ɹaɪm/
homophone: rime
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: rhymes
form: rhyming
form: rhymed
form: rhymed
form: rime
Etymology: From Middle English rimen, rymen, rim, rime (“to recite or write verse; to sing songs; to tell a story in verse; to fit into verse; (figurative) to agree, make sense”), from Anglo-Norman rimer, Middle French rimer, and Old French rimer (“to rhyme (a word) with another word; to write verse”) (modern French rimer), Old French rime, ryme (noun): see etymology 1.
Cognates
* Catalan rimar
* Icelandic ríma
* Italian rimar
* Middle Dutch rīmen (modern Dutch rijmen)
* Middle High German rīmen (modern German reimen)
* Middle Low German rīmen
* Old Danish rime (modern Danish rime)
* Old Occitan rimar (“to rhyme (a word) with another word; to write verse”)
* Old Swedish rima (modern Swedish rima)
* Portuguese rimar
* Spanish rimar
Senses: examples: text: Ha, ha, hovv vildely doth this Cynicke rime?
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 125, column 2:
text: How Panurge and the rest rim'd with Poetick Fury [chapter title]
ref: 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], chapter XLVII, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume II, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, 5th book, page 418:
text: There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, / Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.
ref: 1742, [Alexander Pope], “Book the Fourth”, in The New Dunciad: As is^([sic]) It was Found in the Year 1741. […], Dublin: […] George Faulkner, →OCLC, lines 101-102:
text: “He was aye rimin’,” said Miss Newbigging, “about this bonny countryside and the dacent folk that bode in it.”
ref: 1936 July, John Buchan, “Sanctuary”, in The Island of Sheep, London: Hodder and Stoughton, published July 1938, →OCLC, part II (Laverlaw), pages 152–153:
glosses: To compose or treat in verse; versify.
examples: text: Now she's tainted by the syringe
Try to rhyme a word with orange
ref: 2009, Julian Casablancas, “Long Island Blues”, in Phrazes for the Young, Luxury Edition Deluxe Set bonus disc:
glosses: To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
examples: text: Creation rhymes with integration and station.
text: India and windier rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.
glosses: Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
raw_tags: followed by with
examples: text: Mug and rug rhyme.
glosses: To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
raw_tags: of two or more words
examples: text: I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.
qualifier: text
glosses: To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.
raw_tags: of an utterance
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2010, Tony Pipolo, Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film:
glosses: To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
raw_tags: followed by with
glosses: To number; count; reckon.
Derived terms: rhyme off
rhyme out
rhymes-with-rich
rhyme up
rhyming slang